Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Patrick Kent:

I can put out a list of them. One could start with a lot of them, quite a few of which have superfluous activity going on. They are promoting genetically modified organisms, GMOs, for example, and things that Irish farmers do not want. Irish farmers want to get a better price in their pockets and these people are preventing them from doing that. They are experimenting with things we do not want and that the consumer does not want, and we need to revise what we are doing there.