Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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Okay. Regarding our targets, how we are going to try to reach them and how we are going to turn the tables, Mr. Gleeson mentioned that there will be information and education programmes with the involvement of the farming community, and maybe even outside the farming community, to get investors involved. We are eight or nine months into the programme at this stage.

Will Mr. Delany give me a flavour of what he thinks this information programme will be about? What does the Department plan to do? What cohort of farmers and industry will the Department deal with? Will private equity be used? Where will we get the investors and the farmers? Will it be dairy, beef, tillage or sheep farmers? Where does Mr. Delany think the focus should be, both on the full programme and on the native programme that was only at 260-plus people? Will Mr. Delany give me an indication of where we are or what the plan will be for the next six months?