Factories and retailers have a ‘stranglehold’ on meat industry, TD warns

“We continue to have a system that benefits a few key players and gouges the pockets of ordinary farmers."

The Office for Fairness and Transparency in the Agri-Food Supply Chain is “not the regulator that producers require”, according to an opposition TD.

Social Democrats agriculture spokeswoman Holly Cairns told the Dáil recently that the prices farmers and producers receive are “ridiculously low and unworkable”.