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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Senator Paul Daly is next, to be followed by Deputy Martin Browne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Deputies Fitzmaurice and Micheal Collins are next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We are almost out of time but I will give him an opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the IFA for coming before the committee today. This is very much an evolving situation. I am sure we will have further discussions on the packages we are hearing about in the media that will be put on the table. No one can deny that the sector is in dire crisis. The level of loss is unprecedented in any sector in my time. There is a perfect storm with a price that fell due to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: From MII, I welcome Mr. Philip Carroll, chairman, Mr. Cormac Healy, senior director, and Mr. Joe Ryan, director. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. This means witnesses will have a full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I call Senator Lombard, who will be followed by Deputy Carthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: That is bordering on Senator Lombard's question as well. Perhaps the Deputy could finish the questions and then we will go back to Mr. Carroll, or does the Deputy want to deal with that matter first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I ask Mr. Carroll to answer the questions from Senator Lombard and Deputy Carthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I will take Deputy Michael Collins's questions before I go back to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Before I go back to the witnesses I call Senator Joe O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I thank the witnesses from Meat Industry Ireland for coming in today. They gave us a very useful insight into an industry that is not so often under the microscope. It is the dire financial situation that they find themselves in that has brought it to the top of the political agenda. How we get the pig sector back on an even keel is an issue on which there will be ongoing discussion. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Before we begin, I want to bring to everyone's attention that witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. This means witnesses have full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to abuse this privilege and may...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: That is all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I know Senator Lombard wishes to speak, but do you know how many milk suppliers or what percentage have fixed-price contracts and what level they have them at, be it 10%, 20%, 30%, 50% or over?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: That would probably affect 10% of suppliers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We are talking about 1,700 to 1,800 milk suppliers who are caught in this. I would have thought it was higher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Of course, the lower the percentage, the higher the number of suppliers who would have contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I would have thought that 3,000 to 3,500 would have fixed-price contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: How much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. O'Gorman said the general milk pool could have carried the cost. In talking about that, and to get a handle on what kind of figure we are talking about, we have to know the exact volume of milk. The volume of milk is more important than the number of suppliers because we are talking about the volume of milk. If one could know the volume of milk that was held by suppliers who have more...