Farmers are refusing to leave the St Stephen's Green area of Dublin city centre, despite meeting with Agriculture Minister Michael Creed.
Mr. Creed met with farmers earlier who have been protesting near the Dáil since Tuesday.
The group said they were highlighting the challenges in the sector, and that they would not leave until Mr. Creed met them.
The protest has been organised by a number of individual farmers.
Mr. Creed met a number of farmers outside the Shelbourne Hotel just before 7.30 am on Wednesday.
One protester said they had a letter for Mr. Creed, which he said he would take.
A number of other farmers then asked the minister about injunctions, to which Mr. Creed said that the courts are independent.
He then addressed the group.
Minister Creed said: "I have since the beef talks were concluded and since on the 14th of October we tried to convene the beef market taskforce, we have been trying to arrange the reconvening of that taskforce.
This was greeted with whistles and shouts of 'lies' and 'that's a false statement' from a number of farmers.
Mr. Creed added: "If I could do it... I've made statements publicly that I would like to see the injunctions lifted".
Following this, he met with five of the farmers at the Department of Agriculture.
The farmers had said they would remove the tractors if the minister came to meet them.
But they are unhappy with the outcome of the meetings.
Farmers now want the minister to apologise for comments he made in the Dáil on Tuesday about the protests.
