There have been renewed calls for financial support for those in the horticulture sector who have been affected by Storm Éowyn.
Many food growers across the country are reporting significant damage to their crops and to their buildings.
Joe Reilly has been surveying the damage to his mushroom farm in Co Westmeath.
"We're almost 40 years in business and we've never experienced anything like this," he says as he stands in the middle of what was one of his growing tunnels, located just outside Athlone.
The long structure which has been there since his family started the mushroom business back in the 1980s was ripped to shreds by Storm Éowyn.
"We couldn’t believe the damage.
"The plastic has been completely ripped off. The insulation, all the sheeting that was on it has been completely destroyed."
As well as the structural damage, two crops, worth around €70,000 had to be dumped which is a significant loss for the business.
"In terms of the cost of it, it's difficult to say at the moment, it's going to be substantial.
"There's going to be the cost from the crop loss, as well as the structural and physical damage, and then the rebuild cost as well along with it."
The overall bill could reach beyond €200,000.
In all two of the Reilly’s 16 tunnels were wiped out. That means 14 are still up and running and orders are still being met, but the disruption is a challenge.
"Fortunately, the other 14 of the 16 growing rooms are still up and running, so we're able to increase production in there in the short term, to keep us going.
"It's been a difficult couple of years for the sector, for the horticulture and agricultural sector with all the rising costs, it's been a tight margin. We're a high volume, low margin type business, so it'll be very difficult for us to absorb that cost."
In Lusk in north county Dublin, it’s a similar story, although the damage is not as bad.
Cucumber grower, Shane Halpin from Welgro Produce, was today picking up broken glass in his greenhouses.
"We reckon over 100 panes of glass are gone across a couple of acres of our glasshouses.
"It's the cleanup operation now. We're picking up glass, we're tidying up vents and just trying to source the materials to fix the glass. There’s a lot gone throughout here, and that's replicated across the whole industry.
"A lot of glass throughout the country has been damaged and we're all sourcing our glass from the same suppliers, so there's a long list of names there to get the glass fixed."
He says it could take up to two weeks before the nursery is back to where it was. The repair bill likely to stretch into the tens of thousands.
"It's a big setback to not just us, but to the whole industry, especially at this time of the year, when you're working hard to try and establish a crop, you've no income coming in really.
"We’re taking staff that are meant to be doing other jobs, and they're just on cleanup now.
"Then, there’s also the loss of gas because we were heating a block over the weekend that had panes of glass missing. So, we've burnt more gas than we should have really."
He now hopes for calmer weather and some assistance from the Government.
"We hope just that the worst of the storm season over and a bit of support from the Government, just to help us at this critical time. It's the start of the season, and we don't want to be starting on the back foot."
Representative groups are backing that call for Government intervention.
"There’s been significant damage across the country, especially on horticultural enterprises," says Niamh Brennan, the IFA’s Policy Executive on horticulture.
"It's a very low margin industry to begin with, and the growers cannot afford to take this financial hit at such a time.
"Given the challenges the sector has had over the past number of years, the sector will require intervention to get these businesses and premises back up and running and in full production.
"We’re still assessing the damage and trying to come to up to the figures. But it's looking like it could be tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in some cases for badly affected individuals."
