Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Future of the Tillage Sector in Ireland: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Peter Nallen:
No, there should be none. I can only speak for my own business. There is another malting company in Cork. The parents of that company are two very large co-ops and I am sure they have the expertise to make sure to secure enough malting barley on an annual basis for their production in Cork, so there should be no need. The only reasons to import, as I said earlier, would be if a force majeuresituation arose or if there were quality reasons. We had one year when the entire Irish malting barley crop went high-protein, so we had zero malting barley for distilling.In that case, we had no choice but to reach out through our contacts within Boortmalt in Europe and secure barley of the right protein level, otherwise the barley would not perform in the distilleries. Does that answer your question?
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