December 14, 2020 5:29 pm
The final hustings event of the 2020 Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) presidential election was marked by a very frank and sharp discussion concerning the organisation’s ‘zero-representation’ on the board of Bord Bia.
The matter came to light courtesy of a question raised by an ICSA executive member, who pointed out that both the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) are both represented on the board of Bord Bia at presidential level.
The two candidates in the ICSA election are: Sean McNamara, from Co. Westmeath, and Dermot Kelleher from west Cork. Both demanded that Bord Bia should treat the ICSA with absolute and total parity of esteem, where the matter of farmer representation on its board of directors is concerned.