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

I have two final questions. One relates to calf exports. Does Bord Bia bring all the live calf exporters to trade missions to the different places they are being sold or is there just a handful who go?

I would like the answer to my last question to be as detailed as possible. The witnesses talk about sustainability. They have referred a few times to land use and land-use change. In the west of Ireland, there is a lot of talk at the moment about rewetting, forestry and all of that. Teagasc is doing a lot of research on peaty soils and initial results are totally different to the guidelines the EPA has been working on. What are the witnesses' views on the future for those farmers and peaty soils? Will they be given a fair crack of the whip at rearing their good quality suckler weanlings, their mountain lamb and lowland lamb? Will they be affected by the part of the country they come from? If someone has good quality soil they might be allowed to while away at farming but if they have more difficult soil or peaty soil there might be more restrictions put on them. What are the witnesses' views on that?