Mr. Kevin Kinsella:

There are a couple of specifics which I would like to address, including issues that Senator Mulherin raised. We take on board what Senator Mulherin said in her support for the sector and trying to advance it, and the questions that she is asking in a bigger context. The IFA made a very detailed and comprehensive submission to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, about the beef processing sector. It is 105 pages long. It was sent to members here. It was sent to the then Competition Authority, which sent it on to the competition authority in the European Commission. We met the CCPC and one of its responses was to ask if we could go back to talk to the Ministers for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Business, Enterprise and Innovation, to ask them if they could prioritise competition in the beef processing sector. We communicated that to the relevant Ministers involved.