Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Ornua can turn around next year and bring out its new thing for the next three years. What is the point of bringing out a new scheme? Let us suppose they say they are not going down that road. What is the point of offering a new scheme next year if the chalice is poisoned and we end up in a situation where every farmer says “I will never go near that again.” It is no good to Ornua, it is no good to the co-op and it is no good to the whole industry.