Mr. Charles Stanley-Smith:

I had a discussion about this with Joe Healy the other day. Yes, we believe that the production of Irish beef is probably less carbon-intensive than that of many other countries, but that argument only works if someone is prepared to go and talk to the Belgians, the Brazilians or whoever else and say, "The Irish are so good at this that you should let them produce all the beef in the world and you should stop." Otherwise, what will happen is that we will continue producing beef and so will the other countries and the argument of Ireland being so much better than anyone else will just fail because both countries will carry on producing beef.