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:

To be clear, the genomics relates to the suckler herd. We were here in 2015 explaining why we felt that the BDGP and the suckler schemes were justified, as they were coming under quite a bit of criticism at the time. Deputy Fitzmaurice is absolutely correct. At a national level the carcass weights and carcass conformation have been dropping.