Mr. Michael Moroney:

Each year Met Éireann gives guidance on the appropriate time for blight spraying. It develops that guidance based on indices from various sources incorporating weather, growth etc. We are suggesting that something similar would be done for slurry application, which is a bigger process with more people involved and more widespread interaction with people throughout the country. The numbers of people involved in potato growing is quite small, but a far bigger group of people are using slurry systems. Therefore, we believe it is far more urgent and important to have that independent data-driven decision-making process.