Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Cost and Supply of Fertiliser in the European Union: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is all right. I have a final question, similar to one that Mr. Santini side-stepped earlier. We will see how we get on this time. There has been a significant consolidation in terms of the ownership of companies supplying urea products in agriculture. There has been a major shift in the ownership of these companies in recent years. Would Mr. Santini agree that urea and agricultural fertiliser has now obtained commodity status on a par with paper and oil and is being treated in that way by these companies to the detriment of farmers?

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