Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Eradication of Bovine TB: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Mr. Conor O'Mahony:

It has gone down. The reduction was 30 cent per unit EBI, but it is important to stress the original purpose of the EBI was to encourage uptake of EBI and to get people taking EBI into account when they purchase animals, because we are talking about calculating the market value of the animal. For the last 15 to 20 years the marketplace for dairy animals has incorporated EBI, so the previous rate-----