Mr. Owen O'Driscoll:

To follow up on Deputy Healy-Rae's question, we know we are a really good resource. We are an army of advisers out there and we can deliver to the farmers. For a small investment, you could create a much better messaging system to farmers. You could spend a small amount of money on a private hub to disseminate the information from the research. If the research went into the hub and the advisers were trained on all the new information for water quality, air quality and biodiversity, that would then go down to the 63,000 farmers. They are not disadvantaged versus the 43,000 farmers. That is the big difference.

It is not that we are looking for more money or more information. We are all volunteers and we are doing our best to keep the organisation together. We need support or it will just wander along. If that happens, that is okay but it will be a huge opportunity lost. For example, by not being included in ASSAP or the EIPs, you are excluding 50% to 60% of the potential clients who could be in those. That is what it boils down to.