Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Colin Kelly:

There would, but it would be linked more to supply chain costs than the input costs. When buying from us, the customer is buying the product rather than the milk. Therefore, as Deputy Fitzmaurice says, the customer will look at the price of fuel in terms of delivering that product to wherever the customer needs it. It is more a supply chain cost linking than a farm input cost.