Mr. Cormac Healy:

The figures have been well commented on. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine estimates there are 338 herds with this particular feedlot status. I think it has been called something different recently but it is the same as feedlot status. Those herds accounted for 18% of all cattle slaughtered. In respect of factory-owned or controlled feedlots, where a yard is rented and cattle put into it, figures from our members quantify that as less than 5% of the overall total.