Mr. Barry Lynch:

Our job for many years was to computerise the farms and feed data to the State. Since we started in 1994, that was one of our fundamental jobs. We collected data on farms and considered who consumed the data. For the first ten years the company was in business, the question for farmers using our software was whether we could link to Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the ICBF. It was a major element of the work we had to do. We had to collect data on the farms, analyse the data on the farms and help the farmers to manage their business based on the data in our database. It was essential to send the data down the line to the State. Data was required by the State, such as animal events for the ICBF records, financial records for Teagasc or legislation, or animal traceability records from the Department. We implemented it all and did it to a high standard. It worked quite well for many years.