Mr. Gerry Greally:

I thank the Minister and the Chairman. These figures are to do with the fact that we have not got that sort of detail from the farmers. As the Minister has said, we went about using consultancy expertise to come up with these figures in the absence of the detail from the farmers as they have not provided that detail to us. In the absence of that information we have put these values in place. To explain to the Deputy, the value relates to the costs of labour and material. The labour is the cost of killing these mink and the material then is the carbon monoxide gas that is used which is the 35 cent cost per mink.