Mr. Seamus Scallan:

With many of the bookings, business has been going on with the companies for the past 20 years. The way it is at present, it does not matter who one is. The bookings must be shared out with everyone. We are unique in the way we do our business because we buy all our calves off-farm so we export all our cows mainly of a Friday and do perhaps four, five or six trucks or whatever of a Saturday. Now we cannot do that. We cannot put our plan together because all the space has been taken up.

I left out one other very important point there. Our three sailing days are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If we are entering into the middle of Holland, we have a serious problem. Due to their religious beliefs, people in that part of Holland will not accept calves coming in on Saturday evening and they have to work at the calves on Sunday. This means that while going to Holland on Thursday may not be a non-runner, people do not want the calves landing on a Sunday as they have to do the work on them.

We are really working with two days to export all the calves, a Tuesday and a Saturday. I do not know how we will find a way around that.