Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association

3:25 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Comer is missing the point. That €600 to which I referred would come from the elite farmers. All of the farmers who have the high borrowing, except the 2% elite, would get extra money. It would pay a fair amount of interest in a year. If one puts a cap on the payment to the top 2% and redistribute that money in some ways to the struggling 98% of farmers who would benefit from this help. None of the money would be coming from the farmers to which Mr. Comer refers, the single labour unit farmers.

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