Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They are not double and treble the price of one litre.

In the farmer's favour, again, when he receives a certain price for the milk, there is cream in the milk. My understanding is that there is no cream in the milk any more, particularly in low-fat milk. The processor has the cream and can sell it at a high price. How comparable are the figures after all the pluses and minuses are taken into account, including low-fat milk and 1 litre cartons? On the other hand, the processor or someone in the middle has a big amount of cream that we are not counting in the finished price. We are only considering the milk element of the price rather than the cream element.