Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The climate change argument is the way to get us out of the crisis. It is the way to start paying farmers properly, which is why I go back to the issue of CAP reform. We should be radically improving the payment for environmental services, water quality, biodiversity protection and good quality, resulting in a premium price. There is not a premium price, as I heard today. With all our talk about Origin Green, we are getting the average price. The climate approach is the way to get out of this difficulty by getting the consumer on side. I have to go to a European Friends of the Earth meeting tonight. It is important to attend to state where change occurs. It will be made through the European Union and CAP reform and when one has the Green Party on side, as is the case. It is not on the side of the current system which has to change. There has to be better water quality and better animal welfare standards, which does not mean shipping calves all over the country, Europe and the world.