Competition Authority

it actually is. It’s illegal to intentionally create a cartel of businesses with the intent of manipulating the market. That’s everyone’s business.

And if IFA weren’t beholden to the factories to collect the levies and hand them over they might sing a different tune, but no, easy money to fill the pensions trumps all.

But sure that'd be breaking the law and the guards (public servants) wouldn't let that happen,

IFA looked for information on the cartel a while back, where were you then .

https://staineslaw.ie/ifainvestigation.html

12 yers out from decoupling I felt I was entitled to keep them but I can't really defend keeping them now, circumstances change but even with that 20 years is too far out .

And to be fair I've said that before here in the last two years.

Please re-read - is it all over ......?

Cows, methane.

I eat chicken, ham/pork and lamb

Any one who's self employed in this f...ing country should say fair play to any successfull company, Civil servants have made this a rubbish country for the self employed.

There's half a dozen farm organisations now and no one is able to prove a cartel, everyone is claiming to be so smart now why aren't they able to do better. time to stop the begrudgery

I should put up a picture of a local factory that grew in the last thirty years, I get my hair cut now in the little shop that factory owner started in, it's about 12 ft by 8ft. now he has a fine factory on 100 acres that he bought. Irish farmers should be ashamed of not being able to do the same with 100s of thousands of free money contributed in the sixties. Too many bar stool experts and begrudgers to make a success of anything

I'm just after collecting a lamb from a small butcher in Kilbeggan, I think the butchers that went out of business wanted to close. Dunbia did their best to close this local butcher with a factory shop even after the regulations and failed .He even has a son taking over now

You'd wonder what the true story is of closing down butchers...... see the same with a butcher in the middle of mullingar fr the last fifty years.

That was the civil service even then , they should've assessed the risk in the export credit insurance, they shouldve known what'd happen...... every one else knew they wouldn't be paid

That was 40 years ago, it's doubtful if theres much of that left.

They're suposed to be in the factories doing their job, why are they there otherwise.

Why was export refund insurance offered in a risky situatation, would an insurance company do it .....no.

You said rotten meat, .....who was responsible for monitoring what went into intervention, I could stay asking these questions all night, similarily monitoring the grading machine.

I has to be said that rotten meat and wrong grading machine s hasnt been proven so is only bar talk

That's the story I heard too, if it was that easy do it they were right to do it, nothing in the civil service surprises me, but that's a joke if it's true.

The barstool experts were talking about it at the time yet no AO would check it out