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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If there was 20 cent of a difference in that, how much would it be per year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. What is Ornua's profit yearly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying the new fixed-price contract Ornua appears to be offering for 2023 is 42 cent or something like that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Explain the 10 cent to me, because I want to get my head around that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I read in the newspapers that it is 1 cent per litre. Is that right? For the farmer, is that on every litre around the country or on the fixed price per litre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it not 7%? How many farmers are involved in this? My understanding is that it is 7%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What would it be to them, in monetary terms, per litre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Why is there this snag in it from Ornua whereby if a co-op goes into this, it has to come into the 2023 contract? Simply put, why is there not a recognition we are in wartime? At the moment, the Government has made a decision on roads contracts, and if we consider electricity for businesses, companies have left this country and contracts have gone out the window. Why is there not a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there not a simple way? The co-ops say they are tied into Ornua. Is Ornua a big enough and bold enough company to recognise the situation that exists at the moment that it is prepared to say to the co-ops that this is wartime, there are contracts but it is prepared to waive them. Then the co-ops will put the pressure on them that they do likewise for the farmers. This cannot go on,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: No, it would not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The first thing that has to be done is to look after the people who are struggling. Mr. Jordan talked about Ornua's contracts, and I picked up on this earlier when he was talking to Deputy Carthy that he said some of them are a day and some are weeks. What is the longest contract Ornua has with the people to whom it sells products?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For what percentage of volume?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there a proviso in that contract relating to inflation - index-linking - or to problems arising from transport and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are things in it that will safeguard the future for Ornua.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand the fixed product sale, but what I am asking is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the cost of transport or anything else goes up, is that as far as ten years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How long is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the majority of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, on what the farmers supply.