Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation

11:30 am

Dr. Andrew Cromie:

-----approximately 10,000 are currently knowledgeable of or have reports that indicate to them the status of their herds, which means that there are 20,000 who do not have that information. One of the commitments we gave to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine was we would get this information to those herdowners and they will be receiving it in the next few weeks. They will then be able to assess the information and decide whether they should proceed in the scheme. Our very clear objective, as part of that communication, is that we want all 30,000 herdowners to remain in the scheme.