Ms Fiona Muldoon:

We have great confidence in what we are saying. We have worked closely with ICOS to develop a health and safety approach in marts. We have offered price guarantees to any mart that will work within the confines of the health and safety standards we have brought out with ICOS, which, as the Senator will know, is an umbrella co-operative and most of the marts are members of ICOS. We would be very happy that we are on the right trajectory with the marts but they are still heavily loss making. They face very particular issues around animals and animal management.