Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Task Force: Discussion

Mr. Michael Dowling:

Not very much, except to say, as I have repeatedly stated, that the task force was given a remit and it has carried out that remit. Virtually all of what was agreed as part of the September 2019 deal has been implemented, including the bonus systems which have enhanced the price return to very many farmers. It is not true to say that there are elements that have not been generally implemented, other than the issue of the weighing in the lairage which some factories are operating and which others, for reasons they have explained, are not. Beyond that, the vast bulk of what was agreed as part of the deal in September 2019 has been implemented by the task force, as agreed.

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