Mr. Joseph McCrohan:

In Kerry we have 40 people who go out and help us to find other farmers. They are the 40 existing host farmers. The one thing that will convince your husband to be a host farmer is that some other farmer comes and tells him he is doing it and shows him how to do it. You need to get a scale of people up. They are the ones, the Eamons and the other farmers we have, Bernie O'Donoghue and other people, who will go and sell the project for us. They will convince other farmers to do it. There is a huge knack in that. You need facilitators on the ground to get it started and then it mushrooms out. You need to have 40 or 50 farmers in any county to really go with this project. This is not a new story. It is going on now for 15 or 20 years. It is time now for the Government and the Department to say it is their project, put more money into it and keep it rolling. They should keep it farmer-centred. Some other Department could run off with it and then becomes a different thing altogether. That is a very dangerous position for the Department of agriculture. If they do not move now, some other Department will take it and it will go down a different road we may not want it to go down. They need to add the funding on. To have Brendan here with us today is proof that it works.