Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have discussed the family farm. With the excess increasing from 85 kg in dairy cows – some are increasing to 106 kg, depending on milk yield – will safeguards be put in place for the family farm, be it beef, dairy or whatever? We talked about a smaller dairy family farm as being 100 or 120 cows. Will safeguards be put in place to ensure that, unlike farms with 700, 800 or 1,000 cows, family farms are the last to be affected and some proportionality is brought so that the ordinary family farm, which has always been the model, is protected?