Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a European problem. It is like telling a fisherman that we will give him money to survive this year, but we will take his fishing rod next year and he will not be able to fish. Farmers are engaged in the production of food. I will come to the fact that we are giving €20 million to the World Food Programme at a later stage. Under the cover of an emergency in the industry, we came up with €100 million and it was used to get farmers to reduce their herds or downscale. We are talking about people who might have eight or ten animals.