Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As I said at the outset, I get the science, I get the reasoning, I get the carbon emissions, I get the reduction of the slaughter dates, I get the ease of calving and all that, but when will the ICBF recognise stockmen, farmers and husbandry in all that? There is no column in any of the algorithms for any of the aforementioned, but that is what has got us to where we are in farming: good farmers, good farmer practice, good eyes, good stockmen, judgments on cattle, making a profit and rearing big families and educating them for the past 400 years.