ICMSA: Hardest hit must get €100m Brexit fund

The €100m Beef Brexit Fund must be distributed to all farmers who incurred losses in beef production, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association has insisted.

Pat McCormack, president, said the ICMSA would never accept a distribution of the compensation that discriminated against dairy farmers who had suffered losses on beef that were demonstrably Brexit-related. “A very significant number of dairy farmers also have a beef enterprise and the suggestion that their losses should be ignored is nothing less than a disgrace.”