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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I ask Mr. Carroll to continue with his responses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: It will be €50 billion in total.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I thank Mr. Healy. I now give the Beef Plan Movement ten minutes to respond to the queries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Would it be fair to say that more than 3% of feedlots that are using that status are not restricted from a TB point of view? I just throw that figure out there as an example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I am open to correction, and this is just an opinion, but I do not believe a herd has to be restricted or have TB to apply for that status.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: But they do not necessarily have to have a TB restriction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Even though the 3% figure is right, as Mr. Donnelly has said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: We can clarify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I ask the witness to be brief as we only have a couple of minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Is that a national figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I spent nine months of my life sitting on the climate action committee, which was a challenge, and the dairy sector would have been seen as the most efficient dairy sector in Europe. The beef sector would have been the fifth most-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Of the dairy beef animal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I presume Mr. Doyle is talking about the current dairy-beef type animal as opposed to the one that may be developed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: The Glanbia-Kepak initiative would talk about developing a better type of dairy-beef animal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: Work is ongoing in some factories and organisations to develop that type of structure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I am sorry for cutting across Mr. Doyle but the point I am making-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I do not mean to be argumentative. This goes back to my initial point. Farmers have to work together on all of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: We have the dairy-beef animal and the calf, and it has to go somewhere. Some will go to export but not all. There has to be an outlet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)
Pat Deering: I will give Mr. Doyle a couple more minutes because I delayed him.