Milk imports into the Republic have almost doubled for the first two months of the year compared to 2013.
The volumes imported are also significant, totalling 90m litres for January alone. The vast bulk of the milk came from Northern Ireland, but 9.28m litres was imported directly from Britain.
The real difficulty with the imported milk is not the volumes involved, it is with the quality assurance claims that Ireland is going to be making soon about its dairy industry and about its milk supply.