Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It would have been better if producers, particularly small suckler farmers, had been consulted before the Department went to Brussels, thus avoiding this situation. I want an answer to the following. If one buys a bull with a two-star rating, and one is a good judge of an animal, yet the bull turns out to be a four- or five-star animal down the road, is one complying with the rules of the scheme? Is it the case that an animal will not be in compliance with the scheme if it has been purchased as a two-star bull? If that is the case, then the scheme will take good stockmen out of the sector altogether.