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THE IRISH FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION (IFA) will stage a protest on Monday morning at Dublin Castle as the EU Commissioner for agriculture and rural development arrives for a meeting on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The IFA has criticised the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney after a meeting with him in Cork yesterday afternoon following a protest outside the minister’s constituency office.
The association estimated up to 2,000 people from around the country travelled to Cork for the demonstration. Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Henry Burns, who is a farmer in Laois and National Livestock Chair for the IFA, said the association did not receive “a satisfactory answer” from the minister on the issues they raised.
“It was a rough enough meeting,” he said. “In regional meetings, before he even met with argiculture ministers in the EU, he told farmers that proposals would mean no more than an 18 per cent cut to any farmer and he believed he had a good chance of getting this but he didn’t even back his own idea.”
Burns said the proposed changes to the way in which the direct payments to farmers are distributed could mean a 40 or 50 per cent cut for some people. The new payment method would see farmers receive payment based purely on the amount of land they own, as opposed to the level of productivity which is taken into account in the current system.
Your average farmer on 32 hectares of land, some of those would receive around €14,500 but they’re very productive with suckler cows and producing beef and they’re increasing their production. The commissioner’s proposal would go close to taking almost half of that from a person who is by no means a huge farmer. His salary might only be around €14,000 in total so he’d be depending on the payment to keep the farm going and keep up that productivity.
Burns said this will see the most productive farmers losing a significant proportion of their payment as factors like the amount of work they do, the investment they’ve made in buildings or the fertility of the land will not be taken into account.
He said farmers feel that the minister has let them down and is not representing their interests in Europe.
“He seems like a very good communicator and a lot of people would have been proud to have him as minister of agriculture but now it’s time for him to prove himself,” Burns said. “No amount of spinning will explain to a farmer why he goes down 40 per cent and can’t afford to keep going”.
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I’m a partner who became a dishwasher
Mow that is what I call a community. Congratulations one and all
A KP was always referred to as a pot washer..it’s only when Head chefs and restaurant owners respect the job they do and pay them that respect will they ever understand “All” the cogs that makes a restaurant succeed. Well done Noma.
Anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen will tell you a good KP is worth two decent chefs.
Sonko Dishwasher. He should trade mark that and license the name out to a leading manufacturer.
he doesnt look a day over 30
Doesn’t look a day over 30…that’s the fairy liquid…soft on the hands
Fake news
Absolutely, restaurant that needs publicity for rebranding (and a new dishwasher as current dishwasher is getting old) comes up with cunning plan
So cynical. Best restaurant in the world probably has a waiting list doubt they need advertise. Plus giving away 33% of the company, hardly a publicity stunt
Wow such an amazing story. I’ll have a tan in a few weeks as well.
More leftist drivel. Look at this hardworking dishwasher who was refused entry to the UK by racists!
Your an idiot for going off the subject, it’s about what Noma did, not politics.
Very much is about politics.
Clearly you have no common sense, a business man gives his most loyal staff a reward, and u get all political? Effectively noma is for the people run by the people, a co-op, this makes good business sense,!!!
What a really stupid and insensitive headline. That’s disgraceful . Why could you not say a person who washed dishes?
Blame the headline for using the title that his now-partners use for him? Stop being such a PC orifice that excretes waste.
I was hoping he was joking!
I’d prefer “a washer of tableware” myself lol
Urgh… you know nothing, privilege ridden neoliberal.
I think you’ll find the proper term is table wear sanitation engineer.
…next time I’ve a complaint about a dirty plate in a restaurant I will request to discuss the matter with the chief shiny dish plate sanitation engineer. CHDPSE!!!
Someone on here has the ability to red thumb repeatedly given just 22 comments.strange weirdos.
People don’t want to crash the app, sure if there was a comment for every red thumb you got the server’d be on fire!
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