Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

This comes back to Food Harvest 2020. We are projecting that it would be good to bring about a 50% increase in production to meet growing global demand. Broadly speaking, global demand for dairy products is growing at between 2% and 3% per year. Ireland is aiming to take an increasing share of that global market, albeit the share would still be rather small.

When, with our support, the Food Harvest committee stated production would increase by 50% by 2020, a lot of people doubted it, but it has already increased by approximately 30% from the Food Harvest base figure. Therefore, we are on track towards meeting the figure of 50% or perhaps more.