Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

At the outset, I asked whether the Minister thinks that the concentration of ownership within the processing sector, which includes the rendering sector, is part of the problem and is coming back to bite the Department, as it has done. Farmers have been objecting to the concentration of power in the beef processing sector for a very long time. Is the fact that there are so few renderers and that they seem to be linked part of the problem? They are still accepting material from beef factories and those factories tend to be owned by the same people as the renderers. It is a cosy club in the beef sector to an extent, unless you are a primary producer and are outside of that.

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