Mr. Seamus Scallan:

Yes, to expand the lairages. What he said to me was true enough. He is 57 or 58 years of age. He said that he had spent enough money on this business area. He has an excellent set-up. The welfare provisions are top of the range. Everything is done, 100%. No one could complain about his workmanship, the way he looks after the calves, or his premises. He said that he did not have the money to put into the lairages. I suggested that we could go to the farming organisations and that we could all put some money in together to build extra space in the lairage out there. There is another thing at which we want to look. We definitely need to have two more lairages operating in Cherbourg. If anything happened to either of those guys tomorrow morning or if their businesses closed down, where would we go with our calves? How would we get our calves out? We can only travel for nine hours, take a one-hour rest, and then travel nine more hours. It takes our best effort to get to the lairage in time and to keep within the letter of EU legislation.