A food regulator ‘in name only’

"This is a half-done job that still favours the big players at the expense of small farmers."

TD Holly Cairns, TD on the family farm in West Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane

The new Agri-Food Regulator will be a regulator “in name only”, Cork South-West TD Holly Cairns has said.

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue recently introduced the second stage debate on the new Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill in the Dáil.