Ms Catriona Ryan:

In terms of the funding and what Mr. O'Connor said, obviously we work under voted funding. Our funding is allocated for a specific purpose. When the committee is writing to the Minister, it would be useful to identify where the voted funding is going to come from. We will be heading into the Estimates process for budget 2026 soon. In that context, if we identified one point of funding, it would be useful. I definitely agree that funding is not the issue. We need to get this moving. We will find the funding but obviously we have voted funding. It is not for agricultural schemes but if we knew now what organisation or body was going to seek the funding under the Estimates process, that would be very useful.