Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

At the moment, where they would bite the hand off you for cattle or sheep because they are stuck for them, producer organisations do not really hold sway. Is it a requirement for factories to deal with producer organisations under any of the legislation? More paperwork for a farmer was mentioned. Under this COM proposal, will a farmer have to have a contract with someone or is that up in the air at the moment? If we start implementing a system whereby someone with ten cattle has to have a contract, that would bring us into fairly difficult water.