Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion
Mr. John Enright:
The regulations in the North would be broadly similar. There is a lot of discussion on what a family farm is etc. but if we undermine that and co-operatives cannot get milk supply from the existing stock of dairy farmers then the only alternative they have is to go far large-scale new entrants that would not be family farms. That is the reality.