Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Live Exports: Discussion

Mr. Seamus Scallan:

It would be very beneficial, but we would have to get someone to set it all up for us. We have never sat down together to look at this because in the business we are in everyone thinks he will get more than the other lad and he wants more, instead of sitting down and looking at all the markets. This is the reason I said that if the ship comes in, instead of one guy having 3,000 cattle on the ship, ten people could share the ship and all of them could afford to put 300 or 400 cattle on it. We can all look at the markets-----