Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not arguing and I accept the bona fides that we were wrong at 5 kg and we are right at 2.5 kg. I am not throwing aspersions at anybody but I need serious clarification. We need wriggle room. I cannot see how our banding could be right after the amount of slurry has been reduced and that the only effect it has is in limiting slurry export qualities.

It had to affect the banding also. The banding of 80 kg to 106 kg results in an average of 93 kg. We were on 89 kg. In my opinion, we started our model at the average of 89 kg. To get it right, there was a little chopping and changing; it was never going to end up at 89 kg. It ended up with 93 kg as the average but we started with 89 kg. We came to the figure of 89 kg based on our old figure of 5 kg N per cubic metre. Therefore, Mr. Callanan will need to produce a serious paper for me to prove to me that we were not wrong on 89 kg and therefore are not wrong now and that our bandings are way too high.