Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is not the point. Mr. Gleeson is probably right in that but the point is that sheep from the UK flooded the market on which we are dependent, that is, the French market, at a time when sterling weakened, thereby devaluing our lamb. That is the issue. It is not that we are dependent on the UK market. I can see that. I am a farmer's daughter. I drew sheep for 20 years as a haulier. I am very close to the sheep sector and sheep farmers are very aggrieved. Mr. Gleeson understands what I have said. Does he disagree?

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