Results 741-760 of 1,625 for speaker:Pat O'Neill
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: We can take Mr. Cormac's Cunningham's word on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I just asked the question. Can Mr. Cormac Cunningham give us the margin that the supermarkets are taking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: Mr. Cormac Cunningham will not give us the margins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: We have asked everybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: The witnesses said that the retailers are getting the biggest margin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: We will get there yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: Do the delegates supply British retailers from their plant in Northern Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I understand Mr. Cormac Cunningham is an active farmer, while Mr. Ruairí Cunningham seems to be less active. Can they tell us what margins the supermarkets are taking from both suppliers and manufacturers? That information would be very useful to the committee. Their claim that farmers, even in Cork, are prepared to hire a tanker to bring the milk to the North is interesting. Is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: In that case, the milk will still count towards the farmer's quota in the Republic. Is Strathroy Dairy fulfilling the registration requirements in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I acknowledge that. However, we are hearing stories of milk being transported at night to Northern Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: Who are the retailers that the dairy is supplying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: Basically it is the German multiples, Aldi and Lidl.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: However, the major ones are the German multiples.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I asked a question about quality assurance and manufacturing milk going north.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I never said it was not. I simply said some 2,000 liquid milk producers in this country are supplying the major co-operatives. They must provide a certain quality assurance for the co-operatives. Therefore, Strathroy Dairy is not competing on a level playing pitch to get that badge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I am referring to quality and quality assurance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I am not saying that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I thank Mr. Cormac Cunningham and Mr. Ruairí Cunningham for coming before this committee. I congratulate them because it is great to see a family-run business surviving in the world of multinationals. They have come before this committee because we want to establish the facts and get everything on the table. If we take a certain line of questioning when we are dealing with people,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: Okay, that is good. Senator O'Keeffe mentioned that the largest percentage of Strathroy Dairy's product goes into own-brand. I think this was confirmed by Mr. Ruairí Cunningham. What percentage of the dairy's product goes into own-brand? What retailers are being supplied with their own-brand product by Strathroy Dairy? The witnesses can answer those questions later on. It has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Liquid Milk Market: Discussion with Strathroy Dairy (5 Nov 2013)
Pat O'Neill: I have asked about the retailers that are being supplied with own-brand product and about the quality assurance levels that apply to the milk being taken in from the Republic.