Ms Tara McCarthy:

Perhaps I can build one final piece on that. We have used that information to guide the work we do to ensure what we are doing is hitting the pain points of companies. One part we probably have not spoken enough about is that we have also used this as a toolkit to show confidence to the market. It is really important that when we speak to our UK customers, they do not have the impression that Ireland is not prepared and their supply chain may be at risk. We and our team in the UK have been very diligent at making sure that our customers know that if they are looking at anywhere in Europe, the Irish food industry is best prepared for the obvious disruption that may occur. We have used that data set at every meeting we run to give that confidence, and we are hearing back that it is working.

Many retailers may be frightened about having no product on a shelf because it loses money, in effect. We can go in with this robust data set to market Irish food, which is fundamentally what we are trying to do, and we are using it for that purpose as much as we are using it to guide our way through any gaps we perceive or getting signals from the industry about.

Even when we speak about the agri-food industry's readiness etc., it is the responsibility of all of us to ensure we do not create jitters in the market. The market should know the huge level of preparedness, although this does not undermine the huge risks we are facing. We are very conscious of that but we would never leave an occasion go past without saying that our industry has put huge effort into this. We can benchmark against any country around Europe and even the level of preparedness, investment and focus on this topic in the UK has been nowhere near ours.

On exports, it is not a "calf exporters association" but a live exporters association. We have not got involved in who is in or not in it. We put in a request to the industry so that we and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine could engage with the association. We have not got involved to the level of who is in it or not. We did not think it was within our remit. We wanted to ensure it was representative so there was an efficiency and the committee's report would have suggested it was a requirement for the industry to advance. We have not got involved on membership in any way.