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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Percentage kill-out is not taken into account. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it taken into account?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is good to know because we get a lot of questions on the matter. Explain this. I was looking through some of the stuff and Kealkil Prime Lad is in the top 1% age of slaughter. He is a no grade - 293 kg at 691 days. Then there is a bull in the bottom 1% who is 102 kg more at kill-out at 676 days. How would that be if you were looking at better cattle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Just quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Tomschoice Lexicon was the bull.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. I have another question and we have received phone calls on this. There are a lot of farmers with 50, 60 or 80 cows and one bull. They bought the bull in the last year. They have complied with BDGP and SCEP. They have run it to the letter of the law. They are now left in a situation where cows were brought down and the bull may have come down to two stars. The heifer is off...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will get it for you. Do not worry; I will send it to you. There are farmers between the suckler side and the breeding side. This is the nub of the issue. How are we going to help them get through this with a bull that could have been worth €6,000 but is now worth €2,000? It depends on what they are worth for killing. What is the solution for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Whether SCEP or non-SCEP, everyone now is looking at the sheet. Would Mr. Coughlan agree?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is negative for those who have been reduced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are two parties in SCEP but an outside party has destroyed those in SCEP with the figures. Does Mr. Coughlan understand me? It is not the fault of the farmer. That is what I am trying to say.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In the different groups the IDMSG set up, has anyone looked at putting in proper fencing between farms and forestry that would stall deer eating most of the grass and maybe spreading infection? Mr. Cashman mentioned a few places. In Newbridge, County Galway, there are roads you cannot travel on at night with the herds of them going around the place. I am fairly familiar with the Wildlife...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The forestry section will tell you that, because its forests are bringing those deer onto our land.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Mr. Cashman mentioned the meat and restaurants, and the way we might be able to help in that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Three?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does this come under the Wildlife Act?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I imagine that a statutory instrument can be struck out with the stroke of a Biro.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department ever tie in with gun clubs? I remember one time ago on Sundays there would be a fox hunt. It would be on foot. They would have dogs, drive them out and get them. Is any of that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of TB: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What are they doing differently?