Ms Tara McCarthy:

I did not mean to be smart when I said we got that 30 extra headcount. To get a 30 extra headcount, for us the biggest job is recruiting those on Government salaries in a market that is coming closer to full employment. That is absolutely a challenge for us when we look to ensure we are getting the best people who are prepared to travel, who have languages and who understand the food industry. We will we have challenges within that. Would I say a 32 headcount for an organisation of 110 is not a huge investment and vote of confidence from the Government in it? Absolutely not. One cannot do every single job in year one. What we are trying to do is to phase ourselves and our budgets are given to us on an annual basis for the jobs that we have described to the Government that we need to get done this year, in addition to the €6.7 million we were given in September of last year. We are adequately funded to get us through this year. We will obviously keep dialogue going with all Government parties to ensure that adequate funding takes us step by step through it. What we do not want is to given funding that we cannot spend with a good value-for-money head on us. If one threw money at a problem, one would not get good value for money. Each of the projects we have presented have been funded by Government. What we would regularly do is to keep dialogue going during supplementary budget discussions. If there are new jobs to which we have resources to allocate and if we have resources we can disseminate back out to industry, all these will be influences on the asks we have of Government. When we got that €6.7 million last September, it put our organisation, in some ways, under pressure to make sure we could spend it properly and well. We would be concerned about asking for huge budget amounts in order to make sure we can absorb the spend and give value for money on it.

I cannot give the exact percentage for live exports versus beef. It would be a small percentage because the work we do is very different. We can follow up on it and give the Deputy the exact percentage on this. However, when looking at the type of work we do in live exports, it is very targeted work. We would take advertising in trade magazines and we would do trade or study missions in particular markets. They do not have the same spend as undertaking consumer insight, undertaking huge market research or undertaking consumer campaigns on the ground so one will get quite a different budgetary spend on it. However, I cannot give the Deputy the exact figure today but I will follow up on that. Was there another question?