Mr. Sean Coughlan:

The make-up of the board and its representation goes back to when the ICBF was set up in 1998 and the constitution of the organisation. As the chairman outlined, there are six members from the farm organisations, three from the AI companies, three from the milk recording organisations, three from the breed societies and one from the Department of agriculture. There are 16 in total.

We constantly meet stakeholders. I hold a quarterly meeting with the pedigree breed societies, known as the herd book technical meeting-----