Mr. Tom Canning:

On the question about the farmer's information, you must authorise the transfer of information and our access to that if you change agencies. Say you change from Teagasc to us, then you must sign all forms to grant us access to that.

On what Deputy Aird said, every day we go out, we have to compete. We have to provide the best possible service. We are only as good as the last job we did. We have to maintain that standard. It is vitally important. We are facing an ever-changing environment in which we operate. We need to get that information delivered to us and our members have to be trained to be able to deliver the same standard and quality of service they have provided, otherwise we will not be able to compete in the market because, as I said, we are only as good as our last job. We need the resources for training, to keep that up to date and to be fed that information in order to ensure we are giving the best possible critical advice to our farmer clients.