Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Consolidation in Horticultural Grower Numbers: Discussion

Photo of Claire KerraneClaire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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It is not popular to say but we have to ask ourselves a question about this. When very high-quality produce is being produced, and not easily produced, and there is all that goes into that, and while cheap food is good and well and no one wants to pay a lot when doing the weekly shop, a price will have to be paid for that high-quality produce. Is that not the reality?