Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association
Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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What about the aggressiveness of the discounters and their buying policies and practices? Is it fair to say that in many cases the producer is at the whim of those retailers, particularly with fresh products? A person with a product is basically told what price it will be bought at and there is no choice only to accept the price. Is that a fair analysis of the position with the discounters?