The €100 million BREXIT package for Irish Beef Farmers received turbo pre-election hype. It is now known that the EU €50m is predicated on the restructuring of the beef sector, a point of great concern to farmers, and the State’s €50m is recycled from the Dept of Agriculture budget.
What is not known is who will receive the money, nor the conditions. Farmers under the threat of Brexit need more than flash headlines…they need concrete facts.
