Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed)

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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While with sexed semen, you have fewer Friesian bull calves, you are still going to have the same number of dairy-bred calves that will have to be exported. Whether they are black or have a white head on them, or they are black and white, they will still have to be exported, or a significant number of them anyway, to keep the market in balance here. Sexed semen is not going to solve the issue. You will still have the same number of dairy-bred calves.