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. John Jordan:

The introduction of fixed price contracts - I was this committee a number of years ago at which it was talked about - was a volatility tool to help manage the volatility of the market. For ten years, give or take, those fixed price contracts matched or, in fact, were marginally ahead of variable contracts. That was the purpose of them. They were not-----