Farmers said they will be back 'day in day out' until more action is taken to address concerns of how much they are being paid for their produce.
FARMERS ARE WARNING that more protests and further “civil disobedience” as they drove dozens of tractors into Dublin city centre this afternoon in a protest over the price of beef.
“There’s been no progress made since the task force has been set up. It’s just a talking shop really. It’s just all meetings, meetings, meetings. The base price of beef has to go up and that’s the bottom line,” Kevin Murphy, a farmer from Wexford said. “We don’t want to be here. We’ve better things to be at. It’s costing us serious money to come up here. It costs us €200 to fill up a tractor for the day.
“They don’t ask the ordinary Joe Soap if this is working for you on the ground. They don’t ask ‘have you a living wage out of it?’, or if you’re on health waiting lists and so on, so until the politicians wake up and listen to their voters and to the people it affects, we’ll be back day in day out again.
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