Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy

4:40 pm

Mr. RuairĂ­ Cunningham:

We placed advertisements in the Irish Farmers' Journal and got a massive response. I think many of the Deputy’s constituents wrote in to see if they could move their supplies to us. There was a huge response from Cork and we wondered how this would work. I said ultimately the farmer will pay for the haulage. Despite that they came back saying, “What if we put the tanker on the road and get the milk to Omagh will you take it off us?” There is scaremongering and people say they are worried about Strathroy, that we are going to thrash the market. If we do not pay farmers a decent price they will not come to us in the first place or will not stay. We have not been in the milk business for 150 years by taking short-term measures or cutting corners. We do not do that. We do the job right. In response to the question about how we do it. We do it better. It is as simple as that.

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