Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are trying to protect the family farm model, which has roughly 96 cows. We are trying to protect that across the entire farming platform. If we want to have issues with viability come into the system, as the Chair said, the implication is farmers going out of the system and us ending up with a New Zealand-style system off the back of the changes that are being proposed. What would that mean for the rural environment that we live in and its economy? This is potentially a doomsday scenario.