Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

These are the reasons Sinn Féin has been calling for the establishment of an independent meat regulator which would have real powers to ensure transparency and to enter and search, seize documents and records and summon witnesses, and have the ability to demand information from third parties. What we need is an independent authority which has a remit over price reporting. Our farmers got us through the worst periods of recent times - the recession and Covid. We owe them better than what they have received to date.

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