Mr. Michael Sheahan:

Increasingly, dairy farmers have been buying replacement heifers and stock bulls in recent years. As already stated, this is not a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine proposal but something that has been discussed at the TB forum. It is one of many tricky decisions the stakeholders will have to agree on. It is a difficult one and it is for the forum to reach consensus on it, if it can. There may be some halfway house on the issues but it is a tricky one, with two sides to the story.

I will ask Mr. Ryan to comment on the issue relating to deer.