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Oct 22, 2026
David McCullaghHOST
with farm safety remaining a major issue.
David McCullaghHOST
What practical measures can be taken to tackle it and how can the agri sector be made a safer area to work in? To discuss this issue in more detail, I'm joined by Independent TD for Kerry, Michael Healy-Ray, and by the President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, Denis Drennan.
David McCullaghHOST
Good morning to you both.
David McCullaghHOST
Michael, I might start with you.
David McCullaghHOST
I think it was an answer to a parliamentary question to you that the Minister for Agriculture confirmed.
David McCullaghHOST
What were your thoughts when you first heard about it?
Michael Healy-RaeGUEST
Well, first of all, and Denis Drennan there would know this firsthand through his organisation, but any debt in the workplace is a tragedy.
Denis DrennanGUEST
But
Aisling O'BrienHOST
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, the ICMSA, said the delay to the BISS and CRISS payments was stunning and totally inexplicable.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
ICMSA President Denis Drennan asked if we were seriously expected to believe that the Department has been taken by surprise by the strike action that was threatened months ago and officially notified three to four weeks ago.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
And he questioned as well what the impact would be for farmers who would have direct debits set up, um, that would be obviously timed against these payments, uh, you know, in, in the coming days.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association said that farmers shouldn't be left to bear the cost of the industrial action.
9 MINS LATER
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, they had proposed for a CAP, uh, allocation of 433 billion euro, and indeed, farm organizations had lobbied for closer to 500 billion, so falling, uh, quite short on, on, on those, uh, aspirations.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, and in response, the ICMSA condemned the Irish proposals, uh, claiming that the plans will accelerate CAP's slide into irrelevance.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
And ICMSA President Denis Drennan said the plans were defeatist, and he said the broader agri, uh, sector would have at least expected the Irish government to fight and win back some ground for CAP.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
But he said it appears to have effectively surrendered lock, stock, and barrel on the question of the level of funding absolutely necessary to ensure that the EU retains the ability to feed itself and to be assured of food security.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, the ICMSA, said the delay to the BISS and CRISS payments was stunning and totally inexplicable.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
ICMSA President Denis Drennan asked if we were seriously expected to believe that the Department has been taken by surprise by the strike action that was threatened months ago and officially notified three to four weeks ago, and he questioned as well what the impact would be for farmers who would have direct debits set up, um, that would be obviously timed against these payments, uh, you know, in, in the coming days.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association said that farmers shouldn't be left to bear the cost of the industrial action.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
It said that the payments are essential to farmers' cash flow and to meeting the day-to-day costs of running a farm.
9 MINS LATER
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, they had proposed for a CAP, uh, allocation of 433 billion euro, and indeed, farm organizations had lobbied for closer to 500 billion, so falling, uh, quite short on, on, on those, uh, aspirations.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
Uh, and in response, the ICMSA condemned the Irish proposals, uh, claiming that the plans will accelerate CAP's slide into irrelevance.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
And ICMSA President Denis Drennan said the plans were defeatist, and he said the broader agri, uh, sector would have at least expected the Irish government to fight and win back some ground for CAP.
Aisling O'BrienHOST
But he said it appears to have effectively surrendered lock, stock, and barrel on the question of the level of funding absolutely necessary to ensure that the EU retains the ability to feed itself and to be assured of food security.