Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the representatives from the IFA. Much of what I was going to say has already been covered.

I would like a little more information on the association's proposed stability fund. If it were to happen and the IFA had that €100 million, how would that be distributed to keep liquidity going? Would it be per pig or per farm? Has the IFA gone that far into how the fund would be distributed if it were to get the money? If it were to happen, or whatever needs to happen to get pig farmers over this hump occurred, how confident is the association that farmers can trade their way out of this going forward? Where are the markets? Is there work being done on replacing the UK market? What confidence is in the sector? We all know about the perfect storm of Brexit, the war in Ukraine, feed and fuel prices, etc. We have no idea when the war will finish or when prices will stabilise again. With that in mind, and assuming pig farmers got over this hump, can the IFA confidently say pig farmers will trade out of the situation they are in? What needs to happen with markets and so on to facilitate such a scenario?