Tom Barry (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I will make a brief comment on Food Harvest 2020. I have always gone along with the philosophy that every acre must earn for this country to reach its optimum. I would like to make the Department officials aware of a presentation by the Teagasc tillage stakeholders' group tomorrow on a report that was put together with the help of Teagasc and many of us in the industry in regard to tillage. We hope it will be bolted on to Food Harvest 2020 because many of us in the industry felt that tillage did not get due attention at the time the strategy was produced. That is not the fault of anybody; they were not sufficiently organised. It is a document to be disentangled and examined and it certainly puts forward the arguments for the tillage sector. If any of witnesses have time tomorrow it would be great to see them there.