Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the representatives from MII and acknowledge their contribution to this important debate. Will they elaborate on where they believe the market stands? The Chairperson mentioned that. Where do they believe the market will go in the next six or eight months? I realise that this is a crystal-ball matter to some degree. They might also elaborate on how efficient the pig industry is and how competent and capable it is in how it produces its product when one takes the world market into consideration and also when one takes into consideration how much it plays into the European market and how big or small an operator it is in that regard. If one were to believe the media in the last few hours about the proposed 10% cut in our pig herd, what impact could that have on the marketplace in the future from the Irish perspective? Will it have a significant impact on Ireland and what will it do to the impact of the oversupply in the European market, if any?