Professor Thia Hennessy:

On the growers, we need some investment in research and to develop the relationships with those growers. Teagasc would have some of those relationships already. A research project would have to include the required assurance that data would be anonymised and treated as carefully as is already the case for other sectors of agriculture. The roll-out of that national farm survey framework for horticulture is also required. That is possible; it just has not been done yet.

On energy, I am not familiar with what supports are there at the moment to allow growers and producers to invest in renewables, for example. I am not sure if grants are already available. That is outside my area of expertise.