Mr. David Owens:

The farmhouse cheese sector is relatively small. In terms of exports it is just around 1,000 tonnes, so it might be just less than 0.5% of our total cheese exports. It is quite a small-scale industry but has a large number of very small players. Deputy McNamara might know some of them himself.

In response to the question on pasteurised versus unpasteurised, I am not able to give the Deputy an answer but a colleague who works very closely with the farmhouse cheese sector would know which brands and cheese types are pasteurised.