Mr. Owen O'Driscoll:

We got a report done by Jim Power on recalibrating the advisory services. Everyone has been provided with a copy of it. Members can see the structure on one of the tables in it. It is about the knowledge transfer. The Government has its policies and it wants to implement them. That money funds State research whether it is to Teagasc or the colleges. That State research goes into the Teagasc head office at Oak Park for filtration and utilisation.

That goes down through the advisory services through experts and specialists. Teagasc will have specialists within it to decant this information and give it to the Teagasc advisers, which goes down to the farmers. On the other side, we, as advisers, do not have a knowledge hub to filtrate this information down through specialists to our advisers. There is, therefore, a break in the knowledge transfer going from the research to the farmer. What we have in the middle is basically a hub for which we need to get funding. That would be a direction.