Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Has the CCPC received complaints directly of price fixing by meat processors? Has it received complaints from any of the farm organisations or individual farmers? Has it investigated any such claim? At what point will the CCPC take the initiative and investigate? Every farmer believes price fixing is occurring in the case of most meat processors. When farmers roll up at their respective meat processors on a Monday morning, everyone is given the same price. It is not like Moore Street where everyone is within viewing distance. Information is being shared. Even if it is being done in a loose fashion, farmers are the losers.