Mr. Gerry Lynskey:

The Department has done a certain amount in that area. It has offered, free of charge, to do a certain minimal basic analysis for farmers. However, the main culprits here, if I may use that word, are Teagasc and ICBF. They have addressed the issues of herd management, grass management and financial management by means of software solutions that are almost identical to those that we supply. Our core argument is not with the Department as a software supplier but as the agency that licensed these other bodies to supply software.