Rebecca Tierney

So, you know, it varies year to year and it is very

important to consider that like, it's not what we want, it's not what producers want, but we have to protect the welfare and the health of our birds.

And when the birds are indoors, there's additional enrichment provided to them to ensure that they are still getting to

express their natural behaviours of foraging, pecking, preening.

All of those are met indoors.

And the farmers do work exceptionally hard to make sure that is the case.

And it's certainly not what we want to see.

But hopefully in the future, you know, we will see vaccines are available.

At the moment, we're five, six, seven, maybe 10 years away from needing a vaccine here in Ireland because our cases are so small in comparison to elsewhere.

And we have been able to maintain that.

And with that, biosecurity is...

is the key to all of that.

Our housing order is only another step in a biosecurity chain.

And our producers and our outpackers and our feed mills and everyone involved do a brilliant job at maintaining biosecurity.

And that's why we have had few

avian influenza outbreaks.

I think it's important to remember that any avian influenza outbreak that we had in November, December of last year, they were all individual cases.

There was no secondary outbreak within a zone.

So that's really important to remember that our farmers are doing a brilliant job of protecting our flocks and protecting our industry.

So an organic bird, from the minute it hatches, is reared differently.