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

We should do that. There is a much bigger and more important issue. If we had taken action five years ago that we should take now of considering policy, credit and markets, we would be doing some hard work. That is the best way to prevent any future TLT Internationals having an impact on farmers. It would ensure a live trade that could ensure farmers get the best price.

I suggest we do not finish the issue today.

Today should be the beginning of looking at the credit issue in marts, as well as policies, securities and all the other issues raised at this meeting, to ensure a policy will be put in place to try to prevent a repeat of what has happened in this case and many times in the past. It will happen again if we do not deal with the policy issues.