Ms Kate Carmody:

Yes. It is then rested for a further two weeks on the ground until red. It can be harvested when green by some of the big machinery. I am concerned about the farmers on the western seaboard of Ireland. Everything is moving east. We do not want that. Even Kerry went east. That horrified us. We need to reinvent our rural communities. People love the idea of hemp flax. In Belgium they create Lego-style building blocks from hemp. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, will approve them for use here in construction but we are not allowed to build them here because we cannot get the infrastructure and the money.