Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. The examples given by Dr. Bleasdale are valid, particularly those in the context of the Burren and all those places where it has worked and continues to work. In the areas where farmers are farming intensively and doing very well, however, it will be difficult to change their practices unless they are given something very big. That is the difficulty. The reality is that as most farmers in the parts of the country to which he referred were not making much money anyway, it was not very difficult to bring them on board. It is about addressing the areas where they are making money. It will be much more difficult to get farmers in the Golden Vale or on the plains of Meath, where they are farming more intensively, on board. What can or will be done in that regard? Is this also going to be about the pricing of goods they produce? Will goods that come from a particular type of farming practice get a premium? What are the views of Dr. Bleasdale in that regard?