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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: That was the farming movement. Was it the IFA or co-operative movements that wanted it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: With the current milk price contracts going out, has that been reinstated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: That is to some degree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I ask about the cohort of co-operatives that have over 90% in some cases. Is that an appropriate practice? Has the society taken any action against those co-operatives or spoken with their representatives directly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: The point I was trying to make is about who regulates the co-operative movement with regard to the amount of milk leveraged in a fixed-price milk contract. Mr. Flanagan has said the society has no remit when it comes to regulating the industry. There could be a scenario where a farmer might offer 100% of milk, technically. Is there something we could do as a committee in that regard, such...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: Should there be a regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: As for those farmers currently caught in this dilemma, what interaction, if any, has occurred between the co-operative movements and those farmers about issues such as extended credit? They are still paying for it but I am aware that Dairygold has never written to a farmer about fixed milk price contracts. How many other co-operative movements have never written to farmers about extending...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: It has not been at a correspondent level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: At some stage should the co-operative movement put pen to paper? While Dairygold, for example, has not done so but should it write to farmers? Some people have a very good relationship with the representative on the ground but others may not deal with that representative and could have very little contact. Some farmers may have a very good relationship with their milk adviser but some may...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: That type of letter has not been sent and there has been no proposal for interest-free or extended credit. It has been mooted and spoken about but the correspondence has not been issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I concur totally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I apologise to the Chairman but I will finish with this. This is a very important tool but the integrity of this tool for selling milk will be the biggest issue for the industry in the future. Where will these contracts go? Is there any confidence in the industry with these contracts? As we all know this could be an important tool if it is worked appropriately, what changes could be made?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: In an ideal world, what Mr. Flanagan said would be right but I know it is not happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: It is up to the committee to agree to something like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: Deputy Browne?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: Deputy Fitzmaurice has a supplementary question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I call Deputy Collins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. This is a very important issue and we will probably have more hearings on it. We have a list of other witnesses we will invite in. I thank the witnesses for accepting our invitation and for being so forthright with their information. I also thank members for their contributions. The next public meeting of the committee will be held on...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Apr 2022)
Tim Lombard: I raise the Ukrainian crisis and where we stand in respect of that dilemma. We are 40-plus days into the war and thousands of refugees have come to Ireland. On Tuesday last, 42 refugees turned up in Clonakilty, where there was no accommodation, after leaving Dublin Airport at 2 a.m. They arrived in Clonakilty in the afternoon to be met with no accommodation and had to be shipped off to...