AIBP pays €3.8m to settle epic beef dispute

ALLIED Irish Beef Processors has paid the Government €3.8 million in settlement of a dispute arising from court cases which looked at irregularities in the group’s operation of the Beef Intervention Scheme.

The irregularities included the non-declaration of intervention beef during deboning, and irregular activities during canning operations in the 1990s, for which the Government took the group to court.

These cases have now been settled and payment has been made by AIBP to Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh, largely in respect of the disputed meat in the two main cases, Shannon Meats and AIBP Rathkeale.