Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc
2:00 pm
Tom Barry (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
How could it not include it? I would love to see the data with everything included. If we had them, we would have a true reflection of the industry. The figure in my head, 40 cent per litre, is more reflective of where we need to be. I know that we are price takers in many respects, but I would hate to feel we are encouraging people to enter the industry, expand too rapidly and take on debt - a big issue - using false promises. It would be very easy for someone to read the documents and say the costs listed were the actual costs and bank on them. We need to be realistic if we are to proceed sustainably.
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