Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Page 108 of the programme for Government, in the section on agriculture, states: "The priority for agriculture must be to reward farmers for producing quality food." It was recently revealed that factories have been fined 21 times this year for excessive carcass-trimming. This trimming is carried out before carcasses are weighed to calculate payments to the farmer who owns the cattle. Yesterday, farmers from throughout the country, including west Cork, held a sit-in in Agriculture House, and they are asking one question: why will the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine not name the factories which have carried out this illegal practice?

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