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:

My understanding is that it did happen previously. There were some schemes offered by co-operatives whereby the price was linked to the inputs, but at the time it was felt that was ultimately a variable-price scheme rather than a fixed-price scheme and the sense from farmers was that perhaps they would prefer a scheme that was not linked to inputs. Again, we are a step removed from that, so I cannot say that for certain.