Mr. Jerry Early:

I thank the committee for facilitating this. The only thing I would like to say about producer organisation, PO, funding is that we have been doing this since 2021. We have attended all kinds of meetings, including quota management advisory committee, QMAC, meetings. We are there off our own bat. We are self-funded. The money we get from members does not cover a portion of the travel involved. All the people in the room today are there because they are getting paid. We are there in a voluntary capacity and that is no longer acceptable. I urge the committee, as Deputy Mac Lochlainn said, to get answers from the Minister for Finance or whoever is responsible for that.