Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion
Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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On that train, the phrase "lost the dressing room" has been used here before. The majority of the information the ICBF is feeding into this computer and this algorithm is based on trust in the farmer feeding it that information. It is like playing golf. You trust the man to mark his own score. Given the fact that the ICBF has lost the dressing room and lost confidence within this sector now, how much can it trust that the information is not, for want of a better word, jigged a small bit to try to meet the unacceptable and unachievable targets the ICBF is setting? It has lost that dressing room.