Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Bearing in mind the market we are in, I killed cattle not too long ago that were overage. No one in Bord Bia was worried about whether they were overage because there is a shortage of cattle at the moment. It seems nobody cares whether they may have had 20 movements or are 40 months old. It is my understanding from research I have done that neither Grant Thornton nor anybody else went out to the consumers - not the retailers or processors but the consumers who buy this meat in the retail shops on a continual basis - to get their views. Is that correct?