West Cork TD to meet with Agriculture Minister to discuss concerns of farmers in the area
Christopher O'Sullivan will tell Charlie McConalogue that farmers are extremely worried about the potential impact of an EU review of CAP payments.
Farmers staged rallies in five Cork towns and twenty five other towns across the country last Friday calling for the government to protect the sector from the review.
They also raised fears that the new Climate Action Bill will make food production unviable.
Speaking to RedFM News, dairy farmer Harold Kingston from Barryroe says the latest data shopws that only around one third of farms are considered 'viable':
"Removing any link and any influence on the CAP on the production element, means that you are reducing that viable sector. It's talking about moving money between farmers and levelling opening pitches and so on. I actually think there's an absolute guarantee that this is not going to actually deliver anything extra for the unviable sector, but it will definitely hit the viable sector."
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