Dr. Marie Archbold:

Th Deputy makes a very good point. The ultimate goal is 4,500 farms inspected per annum. That is where we hope to get to in 2025. He is right on that allocation, however. The EPA has oversight of the national agricultural inspection programme. It would have made that calculation of 3,300 farms based on exactly what the Deputy is saying whereby everybody would not be in position. It calculated that based on the recruitment rates we saw in 2023 and then allocated that out accordingly in terms of the 3,300 farms. We still feel that target of 3,300 is realistic given that we could, like the Deputy said, get some of the resources, that is 50% of the resources, in place for 2024.