I also hope the national debate I have called for will act as a counter-balance to the negativity in the debate on agriculture in recent years, to which Senator Callanan referred. We express surprise about the large number of young people drifting away from agriculture and regret that so few people proclaim farming as their chosen profession. Why should we be surprised? If every doctor were to tell his or her sons or daughters that medicine had no future, nobody would do medicine in Cork or Dublin. If every carpenter told his or her sons or daughters the trade was a disastrous way of life, who would want to become a carpenter? If every computer scientist put out the word that there was no future in computers, companies would not expect recruits. For too long, the debate on agriculture has focused on saying there is no future in the sector. We should not be surprised that young people have not flocked to the farming fold. We must try to be positive about the sector and paint a clear and optimistic route map for it. If we do not succeed in attracting young people to return to farming while, at the same time, retaining others in the sector, it will be a great failure on our part.