Mr. Philip Carroll:

Brexit is not even mentioned in the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, SWOT, analysis. There is a reference to the UK market, but not to Brexit. That becomes a key part of the next phase. By the time we have Food Wise 2030, which I believe is to be released early next year, we hope that we will at least know what the outcome of Brexit will be and we can then plan around it.

Deputy Fitzmaurice talked about feedlots. I do not intend to go back over the feedlot issue, but the figures have grown in recent years from 223 in 2013 to 338 at present.

The number of feedlots controlled by factories has not increased. The committee may not want to accept that but it is true. The representative figure regarding feedlot-owned sites is 5%.