Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate we are over time so I am thankful to the Chairperson for letting me back in. We are in the twilight of this Government. We have been hearing these issues for more than a year and it is deeply troubling. We are seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. I propose that the committee writes to the Minister for agriculture and asks him to appoint independent consultants to do a root-and-branch analysis of HSI, with a view to providing a footprint for the future direction of the sector, looking at everything from coaching to breeding and the production of future competitors.