Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I am about to do so. In the reply I received yesterday, it is stated that in week 34 of 2006 some 3,964 animals were slaughtered, while 6,165 were slaughtered in the corresponding week in 2007. Does the Minister of State have any proposals to control the way in which the price in the Republic is controlled and managed by the processors in the context of the ebb and flow of the supply of meat they receive from countries outside the jurisdiction? It is a cartel.

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