Intervention alone will not solve dairy income collapse, warns Cahill

INTERVENTION alone will not solve the dairy income collapse, Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) president Jackie Cahill has warned.

He accepted that intervention, supports and refunds must be deployed in the short term to support the present “catastrophic” milk prices.

But the only viable solution was an end to the policy of expanding quota and producing more milk to be sold on a market where the price had already collapsed, he said.