Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

One further brief point is that we are at risk of doing commercial farmers a disservice to think that they are not going to put accurate information on the record. One of the key drivers is calving information.

They are legally required to do it, they do it well and I am convinced that they will continue to do it. Objective information is coming through from the marts; that cannot be messed with. The factory information cannot be messed with either. I have full confidence that the vast majority of the data will be fine for the purposes of generating indexes.