Fruit and veg prices have 'never been so high' due to Spanish weather.
"It became very apparent at the start of this week on the ground in the market," he said.
"The likes of your tomatoes, cucumbers, iceberg lettuce - even down to the likes of cauliflower and broccoli - all those lines have become extremely short.'Prices are off the radar'"Prices have already started rising, they've been rising over the last three to four weeks," he said."I'm 36 years in the business, and I've never seen a price go so high for so many products.
He said restaurants, cafés, local corner shops and even larger supermarkets are"being restricted as to the volumes they can receive. "Unfortunately for Britain they're in a little bit more of a precarious situation than ourselves here in Ireland," he said.
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