Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed)
Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I am a lifetime looking at contracts being broken. A contract is a contract until it is broken, as they say. It appears there is no way out of these fixed milk contracts for farmers. Hypothetically, if milk was at 20 cent a litre now and the prices of diesel and fertiliser came down as much as they have gone up and farmers were able to survive on that, has Ornua a clause to get out of a contract where it is giving 32 cent but it could be getting it for 20 cent?