Following a meeting with senior management in the Department of Agriculture today on the ongoing industrial dispute, IFA Deputy President Ruaidhri Deasy said the severe problems individual farmers are encountering as a result of this dispute must be resolved by the Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh.

Labour's Mary Upton asked the Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh what contingency plans are in place for the disposal of slaughtered animals, following the confirmation of two cases of foot-and-mouth in Co Louth.