ICMSA says government lacks focus on dairy crisis

The ICMSA has described the Government’s declared policy on the dairy crisis as “lamentable and effectively non-existent” and has called for an immediate focus on the depressed farmer milk price which is seeing a “haemorrhaging” of money out of rural districts.

ICMSA president John Comer said the ongoing low milk price has seen farmers lose €600m in income and the rural economy lose €1bn.

He said that farmers were shocked to see the crisis dismissed in the Programme for Government in “six-odd sentences of platitudes and vague aspirations”.