Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are problems. In the line of young farmers, do we even hold what we had? I look at the age of farmers on the suckler and dairy side of it. The release of farms is a problem. There is no point in saying it is not. What do we need to be doing to keep that figure up? In our local club at home, I watch how many youngsters are knocking around and born every year to see if we can keep the school numbers up and attract more people in. That is what you do in communities. How do the Teagasc graphs look?