Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If they are killed at the average price - €4 per kilo - it works out at €1,500. A person buying that animal after 250 days is going to keep the animal and kill it at 374 kg and will get €1,500 for it. That is €400 more. A tonne of meal will also be put into that animal, and it will have to be held and given grass.