Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Coming out of the agreement signed at the beef task force of September last year were 37 separate actions. Of these, 20 have now been completed, six are in progress and one still is to be commenced, while ten are ongoing actions that are continuing.

I will go back to the initial point I made that the task force is primarily composed of farmer representative organisations and they have got fully behind, for example, the PGI grass-fed application, which I recently submitted to Europe. It was agreed with consensus and with the full support of the beef task force. The reason the farmer representatives signed up to that is because they see the merit in going down that route and, of course, we must push, advocate and market it in a way that, hopefully, after it is successful, delivers for farmers on the ground and in terms of beef prices. Certainly, it is a strong forum in terms of representing beef farmers going forward and I will continue to work closely with it to ensure it is effective.

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