Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would appreciate it if we could get something in writing on this so I can get my head around it. In the same vein, and going back to the nitrogen value in a cubic metre of slurry, this has changed from 5 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre to 2.4 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry. Does this have ramifications for the calculation then of the overall output of the animal? It is the animal that produces the slurry. We were working on 5 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry and we are now down to 2.4 kg of nitrogen per cubic metre of slurry; is the same cow producing the same cubic metre of slurry now as then? Therefore, when we go back to calculating our whole 220 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year, 250 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year or 170 kg of nitrogen per hectare per year, or whatever it is, are there ramifications for these calculations if there is that much less nitrogen in the cow effluent?