Ms Vanessa Kiely O'Connor:

-----was not able to attend my farming organisation meetings. You cannot do everything and might be unable to put yourself forward. Maybe women have not put themselves forward because they have so many other things to be doing. Looking to a solution and bearing in mind what happened with Covid and the fact we are now all able to get on social media, do we have an opportunity to use online platforms for meetings to get more women involved? For a woman with children who is interested in farming and would like to be part of agricultural policymaking, is there an opportunity in this regard? I feel very strongly about it. It took 13 years, or until my children reached second level, before I could make time to allow myself to come forward.