Mr. Joseph McCrohan:

The Department put out a tender a number of years back for four model projects in the country. We were one of them. Field of Dreams in Cork, run by Down Syndrome Cork, was another, IRD Duhallow came in as another one, and the Leitrim Development Company came in. They were the four groups that got those pilots. The Minister at the time, Simon Coveney, wanted to see how this would work. It was thought that if we tried different things in different places, we might be able to come up with what would be the right model of social farming for the country. We worked away and did our thing as best we could. That tender is going to come up in 2026, we hope. If it does not come up, our farmers will continue volunteering, and that is it. If it comes up, we can bid again, and we can move from 40 farmers in Kerry to 60, 70 or 80.