Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society

Mr. T.J. Flanagan:

We need balance in all of this. Over the past 11 years, until this sequence of extraordinary events happened, the sector performed well. The prices that people achieved in fixed-price contracts over the 11 years were attractive and were worthwhile for farmers. That is why farmers piled in on it, then issues arose that nobody could have predicted. I would not overstate the value of a generic letter to every milk supplier. It is much more valuable, if there are boots on the ground in every yard, for the business manager, who is dealing with the individual and who understands the problems, to try to find a solution.

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