Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am asking the witnesses that question because we are paying more to Ukrainian grain growers than we are to Irish grain growers. That hurts me because we have subsidised Ukraine in a very big way and are still doing it.

I see the trouble the witnesses are in with the rented land. Our Government and our Administration should be supporting Irish farmers. As regards insisting now that we can only have unprotected urea and what I would call something that would grow a lot costing more, my honest belief is that unprotected urea would grow nothing. We are being forced to use that now and pay more for it, and the people who are exporting grain here and whom we are importing grain from are not obliged to adhere to the same regulations. Is that right? Maybe one of the witnesses could explain that a bit more to me.