Mr. Cormac Healy:

To pick up on Mr. Carroll's point, as far as MII members are concerned, it is an industry based on full-time direct employment. The figure of 2% through agency is what is represented in a full workforce. The figure is decreasing and, I believe, will continue to do so.

Mr. Carroll has spoken of how preparedness around no deal and the type of tariff wall that will exist. We are all aware that there are many other issues that will arise around trading conditions and requirements in the context of Brexit. From the meat sector's perspective, companies have been preparing for customs have a certain degree of knowledge on that area given experience of trading with international markets, are looking and have been putting more consignment through the direct shipping route between Ireland and the Continent. That is an area of real concern - what will happen to the product we are sending to continental Europe? Some 90% of current consignments would go by the land bridge but all sorts of disruption are forecast for that. They are trying where there is capacity available but it remains a major issue. We do not believe, even with the new and welcome announcements of new shipping routes direct to the Continent, that come January one way or another there will not be sufficient capacity to take what would be displaced from a land bridge perspective.

We are working on details of how that can be streamlined as much as possible.