Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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Is the lack of research here due to the fact the sector is so small and is seen as niche? I know from talking to Sheep Milk Ireland the first time it came to meet me that there seems to be massive potential here for this. It is unbelievable that neither Teagasc nor the Department has done any research into it, as New Zealand has done, to expand it or to see where the sector could go. It seems that time is being wasted. At a time when the Department and Europe are asking for cuts in herds, this seems to be a way to do something different on farms with a bigger outcome at the end of it. Is the reason none of them have done research that they see it as a niche sector at the moment?