Mr. Joe Burke:

That is a good question. The representative of live exporters on Bord Bia's meat and livestock board is himself a live cattle exporter. That is one of our means of making sure we are relevant and we address the needs of live exporters individually, as we do with our beef clients. Live exporters receive individual support with regard to the specific markets and categories in which they are interested. We have encouraged the exporters to come together as a group to form an association. We would see benefits to that for their engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the prioritisation of markets and market access. This is something we have been encouraging the exporters to move towards. We appreciate that there are individual differences, competitive or otherwise. We hope the exporters will be able to come to some arrangement to put a mechanism in place, as described by the Senator.