Mr. Sean Coughlan:

That is a fair point. I will go back to Dr. Crossan on this aspect, if this is okay. Before I hand back to him, because breeding is such a slow process, in the context of the breeding decisions that are going to be made based on the new indexes, those heifers will be coming on the ground, the cows will be inseminated next spring and those heifers will probably calve in 2026 or 2027. To have any meaningful impact, therefore, we are looking out to 2030. This is part of what the indexes must do as well. They must breed the cow for the future. Returning to the point made earlier, we would be very much criticised, and rightly so, if in six years' time we arrived at that point and we have a cow that is not fit for purpose. People would be asking how we sleepwalked into being in this position and ended up with such a national population of suckler cows in 2030.