Farmers demand fleximilk figures in bid to reclaim €10m in quota fines

ICMSA deputy president, Pat McCormack has called on the Department of Agriculture to issue its final national fleximilk figures for the dairy processors to begin paying back up to €10m to farmers in monies withheld due to superlevy concerns.

He estimates that the co-ops have withheld anything up to €20m from farmers’ milk cheques to cover superlevy fines which are now expected to total around €10m nationally.

The Irish dairy sector had expected to pay superlevy fines of around €15m when department figures had predicted earlier this year Ireland would finish 0.9% over quota.