Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I was thinking as I listened to the Minister's speech that perhaps Seanad membership itself is a form of off-farm employment. We are very fortunate to have a Minister of immense experience who has served, bar 2.5 years, for 13.5 years. He has streamlined aids to the farm sector so that they come through very efficiently. Schemes such as REPS work extremely well. He has worked very hard to improve markets—