There are diverging opinions about the merits of the Beef Market Taskforce and the farm organisations involvement.

Some reckon you’re better to be inside the room looking out rather than be outside the room looking in, hurling on the ditch so to speak.

One contributor on the IFA’s online beef meeting on Tuesday claimed that the taskforce was only giving Meat Industry Ireland and the Government political cover.

On transparency, the farmer said he had been able to find information in the Grant Thornton reports on his phone before this. His parting shot was to describe the taskforce as “about as useful as wet toilet paper”.