Mr. Padraig Brennan:

From an export point of view, there are already some decent international customers for Irish organic beef. When one is exporting meat, one needs a certain degree of scale in one's operation if one is to be in a position to supply on a consistent basis. At the moment, organic cattle are making somewhere around €4.90 or €5 per kilogram. That is 10% or 12% ahead of the conventional equivalent. It is a little bit less of a premium for organic stock than may have been the case this time last year or two years ago but the price of conventional cattle has increased quite a bit so far this year, and over recent months in particular, whereas the price of organic cattle tends to be more stable. It does not have the same fluctuations up and down. There is a premium. There are some challenges even in the organic cattle sector, although perhaps to a lesser extent than in the organic sheep sector, which I mentioned before. There are probably some organic cattle that are not being processed as organic and which are being lost to the conventional sector. There is potential to grow the volume of organic beef a bit more.