Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The crudest example is if I am looking at my herd, one in ten of my stock is going to get a very bad rating now on the basis of what is being applied for carbon, even though this is not what these indexes were set up to do. As the ICBF would say, these indexes are purely to reflect the profit value of progeny. Nowhere in the mandate or raison d'êtreof the ICBF, as a company, has anything to do with carbon.