Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association

Mr. Tim Cullinan:

No. We have engagement with the processors, which is important. If we did not have that engagement, we would have to stand outside their premises as well. We want to be able to engage and have direct dialogue with all actors in the supply chain. The retailers were not having that dialogue or engagement with ourselves and that is the reason we were outside their premises. It is very important in this sector that everybody would act together from the primary producer down the line. In some instances, there is a secondary processor along with a primary processor before the product gets to the retailers. All those actors must be able to engage in a proper manner. People must acknowledge when there are extreme circumstances, as there are currently with the extraordinary costs with which the primary producer is trying to deal.

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