Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
No one anticipated such a sharp decline. The decline in milk prices was sharper and of longer duration than anyone anywhere in the industry had expected. To be clear, when we speak about the Department setting the 50% target, it was set by the Food Harvest committee which is representative of people throughout the industry, with the support of the Department.