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

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The farmer has to get an outside sire. The farmer can choose a bull or artificial insemination, so that genotype has been traced already.

May I have a point clarified? The packs are being sent out but am I correct that the farmer does not have to opt in before receiving the packs?