Mr. Michael Kelly:

I thank the committee for the opportunity to speak today. We feel that we have a programme that works successfully in schools. It has been piloted in well over 130 schools at this stage, and we want to take it to every primary school in Ireland. Thankfully, the Government is doing a lot of work in supporting social enterprises. We are a social enterprise that has developed a programme we think can embed food literacy in our education system permanently. We must establish school gardens as a foundational element so that every child goes through our school system knowing where their food comes from and how to produce it. We would appreciate any support members of the committee can give us to help make that a reality.