Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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With regard to sheep, it would look as if 2022, on the face of it, was a good story.

Sales were up, volumes were up, and then in the first couple of months of 2023 there was a 5% reduction. I know the witness pointed to changes in markets but there has to be more to it than that when suddenly it changed, when it had been growing year on year up to that. It is a fairly seismic change, is it not?