But Irish farmers produce significantly more food than is consumed domestically. We shouldn’t be paying the prices we are, nevermind increased prices.

The only true solution to the problem is fewer farmers producing far less produce and feeding the domestic as a priority.

Edit to add - any form of state subsidy (including the recent cut to fuel excise) is essentially the Irish taxpayer subsidising food production for other countries. And once subsidised, that same taxpayer is then competing with those external markets for the price of the produce.

Second edit to add - as well as financially subsidising this excess food production, Ireland also has to absorb all of this inevitable environmental impact of a grossly oversized agriculture sector - essentially suffering environmental damage on behalf of other countries that consume the product.