Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, ICOS, gave a somewhat different perspective to the committee. Its spokesperson stated that while smaller retailers in the United Kingdom were prepared to buy Irish-born cattle, some small abattoir owners had "indicated to ICOS that these same Irish-owned renderers were mysteriously unable to collect offal if they killed quantities of Irish-born cattle but had no capacity problems when they were not killing Irish-born cattle".

They were suggesting that smaller retail outlets did not have a problem with animals once their birth, rearing and slaughtering details were clear. That was the evidence to the committee the last day.