Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Senator Dolan on the communication. It has been chronic. I will read a couple of lines from the Salers Society's its take on all of this. It wrote to the ICBF and stated:

Many breeders are reporting that top-performing cows in their herds have not just dropped in the replacement index but have plummeted. These are cows with excellent fertility / calving interval, calving ability, mothering ability, milk, longevity, etc. Breeders are struggling to understand how many of their top-performing cows can be so drastically downgraded under this new algorithm. This has caused many to question the validity of the index.

Given that the ICBF is establishing the stakeholder forum in March, I think-----