Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael)
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No matter what anyone says, the major factories are operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An animal that is bought in an Irish mart and that crosses the Border to Northern Ireland is discounted. How can that be allowed? How can that happen? That is the multiples or else someone is manipulating the market by doing this. It is affecting people and it will have serious consequences in the autumn of this year in respect of weanlings being sold, especially in the marts around the west.