Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I welcome the Macra representatives to what at this stage is nearly their weekly pilgrimage.

The Chairman and I were at a farm walk the other day on the Carlow-Wexford border at one of these farms where everything is tracked. Something that is coming out clearly is that the figures we have, be it for a cow, a weanling, a bullock, a heifer or a bit of peatland or whatever, are not accurate.

Is that the understanding because we have seen that the research is starting now or has started over the past year? Basically, we picked up the other day that it will take three to five years between getting the figures, backing them up and having a peer review or getting them into this journal they have to be put into. For all farmers, whether young or old, the figures we are starting with are completely wrong. Would that be Macra na Feirme's analysis?