Ms Lorna Meaney:

We will have to consider it. We have been focusing, through the calf stakeholder forum, more on dairy beef projects with Teagasc and industry to find a market for these animals going to beef and to increase the commercial beef value of the calves that are born so they might feed into a better dairy beef animal and, therefore, may encourage more farmers to go down that route. The ten-point action plan on the support for dairy calf beef systems is another option being explored.