Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No one disputes that. I wish to make two very quick points that I omitted to make in my opening remarks. The first is that the gentleman's father voluntarily participated in the scheme in 2012, along with the 7,500 other farmers in the country who were involved. Second, his herd was shown to be negative for the disease. With respect to the officials who prepared the Minister of State's script, who did it very well in terms of giving us an overall analysis of BVD, the point I made related to the double charging of a father and son with a specific closed herd that was tested in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the fact that they must now repeat the process for another two years.