Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Economic Importance of Cattle and Sheep Sectors: Discussion

2:50 pm

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

It does not hold because Professor Renwick's own figures show him the volatility in how the numbers go up and come down. Therefore, people do not take the same view. The argument was put to me about the farmer being happy every year to lose money in the long term, and I said that if the farmer is that foolish, it is unlikely the farmer's spouse is going to be that foolish. If the two of them are that foolish, when they go down to the bank manager, they will------

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.