Mr. Eamon Horgan:

I am doing the voluntary model. To me, they are both great models. If I were to be paid for this model at the rate that it is going, and at the rate that we should be paid, if someone landed to me with the going rate that moment then I would tell them to gather their bags and go. We have no bother with accepting the paid model but we will in the future sit in front of this committee looking for €1.5 million for Kerry Social Farming. If that money is there then we will do the paid model, no bother in the world. We would be delighted to pay the participants. Whatever about ourselves, if there was enough to pay the participants but we are working with a small budget. It is probably one of the best budgets that leaves this House here if you could see what it has done on the ground, and has done for the participants. The proof of the scheme is that farmers have continued with social farming.