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

I thank the speakers for coming in and giving us an informative overview. I will follow on from Deputy Fitzmaurice and Senator Daly and try to get a picture of the full impact of this. The speakers have given a worrying indication of the impact of cow banding and the reduction to 220 kg. In the tables they have given, have they expanded that to include the full herd? Do they have a final picture based on the analysis they have given or is that just an indicative picture? Can they give an industrywide figure for the total reduction in cow numbers?