Dr. Barry O'Reilly:

In total, there were 22 tillage farmers. Overall, 48 of the 62 respondents, or 80%, were stakeholders in the tillage industry. That would include farmers, researchers, farmer organisations and various ancillary industries, such as the seed trade, grain merchants and umbrella organisations and representative groups. There were 13 respondents that we might categorise as citizens or stakeholders who are involved in the organic sector, five of whom were in favour of adaptation to regulate for NGT and seven who were against and who are in favour of maintaining the status quo. In other words, they are in favour of maintaining the regulation of NGTs in the context of the current GMO legislative framework. Of those 13, one did not indicate opposition. That is a very broad breakdown of the respondents to the stakeholder consultation and their various views.