Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What is the difference for a member of a producer organisation? If Deputy Rabbitte set up a producer organisation she would have membership of our club without being in the thing. What is the difference with a farming organisation such that when it goes into talks with factories or whatever it cannot talk about base price, but if it forms a producer organisation, it can go into the same place, meet the same people and talk about the same thing?