Q&A: ICOS 5-5-5 plan to protect dairy incomes, Martin Keane, ICOS

The dairy co-ops have made their 5-5-5 Income Stability Tool one of their main general election demands.

ICOS President Martin Keane said, “We have devised the “5-5-5” scheme in order to comply with EU state aid rules and we urge the incoming Government to address this matter in the programme for government and budget 2017.”

He said the co-op movement supported the milk price in 2015 to the tune of €100 million.