Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
As regards the charter with retailers, maybe the committee should consider the issue of retailers. There is a thread running through the contributions of all the witnesses who have come before us. It comes down to price and the specification on which the supermarkets tend to insist even though most people are probably not overly fussy. I find Irish people are not overly fussy when it comes to a fruit or vegetable. As regards the point in respect of wonky vegetables, I was thinking of clothes. If there is a button missing from a garment or something wrong with it, the retailer does not throw it away but, rather, sells it at a reduced price.
That is something that goes on in England, but not here. Is that correct?
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