Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion

2:00 am

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

The word “may” will have to be taken out of it. It should be a regulatory proposal and the same standards will have to be insisted on from the people exporting in here as from these poor fellows behind my back who already have the standards demanded of them. There is an unfairness there that has to be sorted out. I am very concerned about it. We also have a serious health issue here with cancer. We do not know what is in the imported grain if we are not assessing it, but we do know what is in the Irish grain produced here. That is not fair. We want this highlighted right away to the Minister to make him understand. Now is the time to back these fellows and give them the €65 million, and to insist on the same standards with the grain coming in and that people buying it can only buy that grain. They could be hurting and damaging our population, our youngsters and our older people, and it is a very serious matter. How soon will this assessment take place?

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