Agriculture minister said new regulation of relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain would come into force next April, overseen by new office of food ombudsman

There is little evidence of strategic thinking on how we would feed ourselves if we were largely cut off from international markets

Now into his second year in the role, the Minister for Agriculture says the expansion of Ireland’s dairy herd has to stop if the farming sector is to meet its climate targets

The Minister for Agriculture says his department would only consider cap on dairy cattle numbers as ‘a last resort’