IFA seeks talks on CAP reform deal

The IFA is to seek an immediate meeting with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern under social partnership to assess the impact of the CAP reform package agreed in Luxembourg last week.

President John Dillon announced the move after a special IFA National Council meeting in Dublin yesterday.

He said there was an angry reaction from farmers to the major cuts in dairy farmers’ incomes that will arise from last week’s “bad deal for farmers and rural Ireland.”