Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Maher. I am conscious of time because my colleagues want to come in. I have one more question for the IFA. Mr. Bourke gave some very good information on the age analysis. It would be helpful if he could share that with us. It was not in the submission. I do not want him to go into it now but it was a good insight and I ask him to send it to us in an email.

We have spoken a lot about deer. This came up initially with Macra na Feirme and I had hoped to speak to Mr. Keane about it. Scotland has the largest deer population per capitain Europe and it is infinitely bigger than ours. What is Scotland that we are not? I do not mean to pre-empt Mr. Bourke's answer but we are about to do a horse census in this country. It is astonishing, given the cost of this, that we have not done a deer census and that we do not have a programme in place for testing TB in deer.