Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

Someone's mobile telephone is buzzing. While I do not know whose it is, it is not mine.

I will consider the suggestion and will revert to the Senator. However, I do not believe it will be possible to apply this proposal across the board because the Department then would be obliged to prescribe which organisations would be allowed to have an accompanying officer and which would not, at which point one begins to enter a quite complex area. For example, in the case of farmers would it be a farming organisation and should it be the beekeepers' association in the case of bees?