SWS gets seal of approval

KEEPING track of the country's cattle has become a €5.5 million per year business for a west Cork company.

And SWS Business Process Outsourcing Ltd in Bandon is doing a good job, according to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which oversees administration and expenditure of public money.

SWS BPO records more than two million cattle events per year as part of its processing of calf birth registrations, bovine passports, animal movement permits and on-farm livestock death notifications, for the Department of Agriculture and Food.