No fines after 2014 quota investigation

A full milk quota compliance verification audit at Glanbia by the Department of Agriculture has followed the Department’s investigation into last year’s allegations that milk collections from a milk supplier were credited to another milk supplier, and that this was facilitated by the milk purchaser concerned.

However, a prosecution is not being pursued, said Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney in the Dáil.

He was responding to a Dáil question from Martin Ferris, the Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North-West Limerick, who said a milk producer 110 miles away from the Clongowes Wood College farm in Co Kildare supplied 500,000 litres of milk to the College farm which in turn supplied Glanbia.