Milk quota shortage ‘must be addressed’

MECHANISMS to further improve restructuring schemes which are now the main instrument in the transfer of milk quota are being considered by the Agriculture and Food Minister Joe Walsh with the help of the Milk Quota Review Group.

Mr Walsh told the Teagasc national dairy conference in Killarney yesterday there was a need to look at ways of attracting increased quantities of quota into restructuring to try to satisfy the demands of those who need to increase quota size.

The question of price was an obvious one to look at in this context. Lack of quota for restructuring, particularly in some parts of the country, was a serious problem.