Mr. Patrick Byrne:

Yes. This is what I mean. At the moment they are in the process of recruiting. The level of resources there prior to 2022 was approximately 11 full-time equivalent inspectors spread nationally. The allocation is an additional 57 to be dedicated to agricultural inspections. The latest figure we have is that 27 of those positions have been filled. They are still in a recruitment process to fill the balance.

On the Deputy's question, to date we have put in place and have run two training courses, which were led by local authority and Department of agriculture inspectors to bring them up to speed and train them into the job. The inspectors largely come from science backgrounds as well.