Minister Rushed to Rome as Mullooly Warns Mercosur Will ‘Destroy’ Irish Beef Incomes - 07/01/2026

Midlands-North-West MEP Ciaran Mullooly has called on the Minister for Agriculture Martin Hayden to reject the so-called Mercosur “safety clause” proposals, describing them as wholly inadequate and completely unacceptable.The Minister for Agriculture Martin Hayden was asked to travel to Rome on Tuesday for urgent crucial discussions with his Italian counterpart ahead of another attempt by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to force a vote on the controversial EU Mercosur trade deal.The Independent Ireland MEP said he has spoken in the last 24 hours to farming representative groups in Italy and around Europe and commented that, the new proposals do nothing to address the severe income losses Irish beef farmers and their European counterparts will suffer if the Mercosur trade agreement is signed off by the Irish Minister for Agriculture at EU level on Wednesday.Ciaran joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.