Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a training aspect on which there will be a series of seminars. The agricultural advisers are going to have a massive role, as will the new co-operation project teams. It is new and there will be a learning for everyone involved but it is about scaling up that capacity and reorienting everyone to the results-based system, with farm advisers and advisory professionals at the centre of that. A key role for them will involve working to inform farmers of that adjustment and bring that new learning.

There are five-year, rather than annual, targets, with actions that will help deliver them, and it is about stepping out those actions and making progress on them. As we scale it all up and build momentum, we will get more and more progress as we go along. Getting the ball rolling is the difficult part but that is where we are.