Mr. Sean Coughlan:

It does not have any shares in the organisation. It does not have ownership of the organisation. We are not a State entity. We are unique globally in that regard. Our genetic evaluation functions, in the 1980s and 1990s, would have been done by the Department of agriculture on both the dairy and beef sides. When the ICBF was set up in 1998, the Department transferred responsibilities for genetic evaluations to the ICBF. That meant the performance test centre was transferred too.