Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Data Genomics Programme: Irish Cattle Breeding Federation

2:00 pm

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

This brings us back to the point that life on farms is such that a weanling will jump a gate at various stages. The reality is that not all calves will be born of purebred bulls all the time. We have to allow for those eventualities, and the Department has been reasonable in allowing for them.