Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is right. The more we can bring this to the local level and have collaboration within the sector and across the different layers in the sector, the more progress we will make. We have been looking to do that as regards applying the knowledge. For example, we have the Teagasc signpost farms where they have developed that network over the last two or three years across the country. There is no better way to learn that than farmers coming onto a farm and seeing it being applied and saying if that can be done there, it can be done on their own farms. About a month ago the French minister for agriculture, Marc Fesneau, and I went to visit a farmer out in Meath. He is a really good progressive young farmer. His name eludes me so apologies for that. He was able to show in the last three or four years on that signpost farm the steps he has taken in relation to pasture management, the types of sward-----