Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Task Force: Discussion
Mr. Michael Dowling:
When I said that PGI was a success, I meant that it was a success to get agreement in the beef task force on the application to be put to Brussels. Obviously, we cannot claim that its outcome will be a success until we get back from Brussels. Nobody is prepared to say exactly what the premium will be. The information that we have is that in general in Europe, there is close to a 10% premium for product which has PGI status, over the equivalent product which does not. Nobody can guarantee that at this stage but the expectation is that there will be a reasonable premium.