Ms Edel McGinley:

It does not make sense to me. It is important that we know who is in the industry. It is not a bad thing to know if migrant workers are here and it is not a bad thing to know if migrant workers are on work permits. We need to know so we know the vulnerabilities in the sector. There was little scrutiny of how the meat industry made arguments for additional work permits being issued. We must also look at the amount of exports. We supply a great deal of meat to Europe and other areas. As that grows, there is a corresponding demand for workers. I do not think there is enough transparency in the correlation between the amount of exports and the demand for workers. I do not have the detail on that aspect, but it is something that needs to be looked at some more.