Mr. Tom Canning:

May I answer that one? I appreciate Senator Brady's sentiments. We have been lobbying, as I said, for quite a long time here. Before I was installed as president of the ACA a number of years ago, I met a Department official and I asked him the key asks he wanted to show that we were a credible organisation that it could do business with. There were five asks in that and we delivered on every one of them. We have been involved, as Mr. Feeney has said, in regular consultations with the Department of agriculture. Mr. O'Driscoll is a part of the consultation and strategy on development of the future for CAP. We have made a serious effort in relation to this. We are fully committed to agriculture consultancy work and providing the best possible service. Being honest, we find it hard to understand why we are not engaged more fully because we believe we are an army in waiting, a huge resource that could be used to the betterment of Irish agriculture. I think we will be needed because the challenges ahead of us are so great.