Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:00 am

Photo of William AirdWilliam Aird (Laois, Fine Gael)
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No. More importantly for the Minister, I have here the form for a bullock that went down. The Minister is a farmer. There is the result: €3,685, which was what the valuer had put in for the bullock. The bullock was brought to the factory and it was at 810 kg live weight. The value the Department negotiated was €5.32 per kilo. That animal showed no lesions whatsoever, they checked-----