Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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With regard to grass in different parts of the country, there is grass seed that one can adapt to different types of land and it is fairly successful. We do not seem to have attained success in the tillage sector to the same extent as in the grass sector. Why is that and are we moving to resolve that? I agree with Professor Ferguson about the great progress made in the genomic aspect of the dairy sector but there is a problem to the effect that we do not have the data in the beef sector, which seems to be blowing up in our faces. For people to be able to make judgments we need data and we do not have the data going back that would change the process in the efficient way that it changed the dairy sector.