Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

PGI status was an opportunity to develop a premium price suckler beef product but the goal of the meat industry was to shoehorn as much beef as possible into the PGI label.

Now the farm organisations have disappointingly bought into that approach.I believe this approach is the final nail in the coffin of the suckler beef industry here and contradicts the motion that was accepted by the House, last September 12 months, to have a distinctive Irish suckler beef brand.

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