Mr. Conor Mulvihill:

To follow on from Dr. Johnston, Senator Joe O'Reilly referred to the beautiful factory in Bailieborough, County Cavan. In County Cavan alone, there is also a facility in Virginia, another in Cootehill operated by Abbott and a Chinese company has also established a new factory in Carrickmacross on the basis of the availability of all-island milk. That is in one county alone. It depends on how one counts, but there are 53 or 54 milk processing sites across the island. There is a lot of focus on Google, Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry but they are not setting up in Carrickmacross or Bailieborough. There are milk processing sites across the island.

In homage to the leaving certificate students who may be doing physics papers later, I will mention a concept in physics known as Schrödinger's cat. The idea is that there is a cat in a box and one does not know whether it is dead or alive. The analogy I am making is that, if this origins issue is not sorted out, we do not know whether the milk products are to be Irish, British or nothing at all. Schrödinger's milk is appearing in Ireland. One can get away with that to a degree with a litre of milk but, when dealing with infant formula and food for special nutritional purposes, the origin is absolutely fundamental to what one is selling. This goes back to Dr. Johnston's point on epidemiological food standards and so on. This needs to be sorted. The solutions are there. We are focusing on the EU at the moment. If we can get the EU moving, we can unlock a lot more.