Ms Tara McCarthy:

For the other trade missions we would have taken a very strong dairy agenda to them. We would then do a joint trade mission of dairy and beef to markets such as China. Dairy and beef would be on our agenda almost everywhere we go, whether it is on a beef access issue or whatever. We were in Korea and Singapore. We would have been in Japan where beef would have been on the agenda, as would access for lamb and the promotion of pigmeat. In terms of the trade missions we undertook on live exports, the Turkey trade mission was a dedicated live export. We also did dairy on the Algeria and Egypt trade mission. When we went to the Netherlands we brought the live exporters with us but we would have also had conversations about it while there.

I will have to revert to the Deputy with the detail on the money we have spent in China. We spend funds on promotion, etc. I do not know whether Mr. Brennan has a figure in mind for that. In China, we carry out many EU-funded campaigns that have a smaller contribution from the Exchequer and a larger contribution from the EU. That is how we originally kicked off our campaigns in China. It was 80% EU funded and 20% Ireland funded. I will have to revert to the Deputy with the total figure we have dedicated.