Mr. Brendan Cooney:

We have had great engagement with farmers because we have been open with them. We go up to them and they talk to us and we talk to them. Mr. Kinsella was a private agricultural consultant before he joined us at Wexford County Council. He knows most of the farmers around the county and that is brilliant.

Last year we came up with a code of practice as to how we would run engagement with farmers during the national agriculture inspection programme. We were the first county in the country to do this. Other counties have taken it on board now and they are all doing it. It gives fair play to the farmers and to us. We are looking for them to work with us. We have had very good engagement.