Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank both organisations for coming in. The first thing we need to recognise is that seeing somebody now in the daytime is an unusual thing for a farmer. Farmers see no one from one end of the day to the other. They are on their own a lot of the time. Everyone has to try to get a speak here. I will ask a few straightforward questions. The IFA and other farming organisations would be in with the Department for the rights charter, say. Is there a section in that charter on mental health and wellbeing? If not, how was that never included for the farmers? Teagasc gets a good bit of Government funding. Has it a section that helps or deals with farmers who have mental health issues? We are looking at the genetics of cows and how to make a better calf and do everything but the person who produces all this food is the person no one seems to look at. What has Teagasc done on that?