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

-----the dairymen are not coming in knocking on the door? The beef man is not coming in because, thankfully, the price is good. Farmers are busy and they only look for a fair price when they are in trouble. Let no one cod themselves about the fact that the tillage sector is in trouble at the moment. We are going to lose tillage farmers.

I have questions for the Department. Under the climate action plan, when one looks at the funding needed is it not a no-brainer to help the tillage sector more, rather than bringing in stuff from, say, Ukraine and other third countries such as the Mercosur countries?

Is it not a no-brainer to do that even with all the palaver I hear about the climate?