Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Some of my colleagues have commented on the processors, meat factories and multiples. This issue has been raised by farmers for years. I would like to get a sense from the witnesses of the view throughout the farming organisations. I have always heard tea and sympathy for this point of view across the political spectrum but I would like to know from the witnesses, working in co-operation with other farming organisations, what do they propose legislatively at State and European level to address this? A huge amount of profiteering and abuse is happening in the middle between the consumer and the producer. I would like to hear this in clear terms, particularly as, I imagine, it will be a priority in the committee's work programme for the period ahead.