Fewer farmers have sought to postpone their Bord Bia audits this year compared to last year, despite the ongoing furore regarding the chair Larry Murrin.
Audit postponements are down 6% on last year and 11% on the previous year, a spokesperson for the State agency told the Irish Farmers Journal.
“Postponements and withdrawals are standard practice in the running of the schemes. There has been no increase in withdrawals from audits compared to this time last year,” they said.
This tallies with comments made by Bord Bia CEO Jim O’Toole at an Oireachtas committee meeting where he said the “level of cancellations at farm level are the very same as it was last year”.
It comes as the IFA protest completed its 23rd day outside the headquarters of the agency on Pembroke Road in Dublin. Five IFA members remain inside the building as part of the protest and are refusing to leave.
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