Naoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

I apologise for being late. I was in another meeting but I have gone through the witnesses' statements.

On the statement from Teagasc, there was mention of the measures in the agricultural MACC. The first one is around reducing the age of finishing with beef cattle from 26 to 21.6 months by 2030. I appreciate the answer the witnesses gave earlier on about the difficulties last year. My question on that is whether moving ex-dairy cows into the beef market is being considered, or is that percentage so small that it is not going to have an impact? Naturally, they are going to be a lot older than the rest of them.