Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

The Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, is very familiar with this issue given his location. We will undertake this pilot project on deer fencing to see what it shows us. Deer fencing is expensive and difficult. I know some people who have done it recently. We will get the message out to prioritise deer fencing and we will certainly do it at least at an experimental level and see what we learn from that.

We could give a complete breakdown of the beef markets: 50% goes to the UK; 40% to the rest of the EU and 10% to third countries, approximately. We can give the committee a complete breakdown if it likes.