Mr. Christy Comerford:

Johne's disease was mentioned so I must say a bit about it. From figures produced by Animal Health Ireland, we can see that the figures are rising in the dairy herd more than they are in the beef herd. The reason for this is because a dairy farmer is testing for Johne's disease. If his cows test positive for the disease, the milk from those cows is put into a barrel at the end of the milking parlour in the morning and is fed to his beef-type calves. The milk from his cows that test negative is fed to his replacement heifers to weed out Johne's disease within his herd. The Government has put a scheme in place that forces suckler farmers to buy replacement calves from dairy men - calves that have been fed with milk from cows with Johne's disease. Are we going to let-----