Green Party leader Eamon Ryan took the bull by the horns, or in his case the salad by the trowel, last week with his Dáil speech. A clearly emotional Ryan said seeds should be planted on every south-facing windowsill in the country.

“So if there is any supply crisis of food in two or three months’ time…we have our salads ready to go,” he explained.

The idea of food shortages is just a bit too much to swallow for a nation that produces enough to feed 36m people.