Rebecca Tierney

Oh yeah, David, thanks for having me.

Yeah, there certainly is.

It's the...

production system of eggs that we see grow year on year.

When you go to your shop shelf, that's what's going to meet you at your eye line, which shows it's in demand.

A large brown free range egg is what our Irish consumer is looking for.

To be honest, I don't know, because it's typically a free range egg that I consume myself.

And that's just from the farmers I deal with.

The vast majority of them are free-range egg producers.

So get them at the farm gate.

Yeah, so similar to all poultry.

agricultural systems, we've seen pricing increase, same as our standard day-to-day living costs.

Electricity, the price of the pullet in the last two, three years has gone up two euro per bird and possibly slightly more.

So your starting point straight away, you're out more money before you ever commence.

Feed has increased.

Now, to be fair, feed and egg price are index linked, but the feed has gone up, so you have to factor that in.

Medication costs, so not necessarily that the birds are getting a lot of medication, but when they do, the price of disinfectants for our biosecurity, and that's a really important point for protecting our poultry flocks to ensure that they are healthy and that they produce to the highest percentage that they can.

But oil costs, labour costs,

transport, feed, everything has gone up.

And with that it hasn't always been reflected back on the egg price.