He championed the 'shamrock organisation' built around 'a core of essential executives and workers supported by outside contractors and part-time help'.

The gardens cover 14 acres and are looked after by a full-time gardener, with part-time help that adds up to another five/six madays a week.

Over the same period, the size of the team was tripled, bringing in full and part-time help to provide telephone support.

This work includes part-time help or unpaid work on the farm, family enterprise or in any other economic activity such as cultivation and milk production for sale or domestic consumption.