Ms Sinéad McPhillips:

One of the immediate actions under the September 2019 beef sector agreement was that Bord Bia increased its market price-tracking and reporting function. One of the indicators it tracks is a US by-product market indicator. In regard to offal and hide coming from an animal, there are no published prices for Irish or EU hide or offal products. Instead, Bord Bia produces a regular indicator report on offal markets, which is available from the US Department of Agriculture and which is used broadly as an indicator of how world markets for offal and hide in general are going.