ICMSA votes to keep quota rules

ICMSA members have voted decisively for restrictions on the movement of milk quota to be maintained.

Delegates to the Association's Annual General Meeting rejected a motion from the Macroom, Co Cork, branch calling for ring fencing of milk quota to be abolished.

And they copperfastened their stand by adopting a motion from Donegal, "That milk quota must be protected in peripheral areas beyond 2007" and a motion from Sligo, "That no milk quota should be confiscated from a milk supplier under the so-called 70% rule."