Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I welcome the delegation from Teagasc. I agree with the policy on food but does it have a GM policy in the area of energy crops? There is a difference in the end user in this case. Grain growers and farmers' organisations were before the committee last week. I am from the midlands and some of my neighbours, as well as people in the west and north west, have been badly affected. While not necessarily losing their full crop, they have lost straw and by the time they got around to cutting their grain it was probably not worth cutting. If they were to knock on the witnesses' doors for advice, based on what has happened in the past two years when they have lost their harvest, in what direction would they send them? What advice would the witnesses give them in the area of diversification? There might be five good years of weather but we cannot say that as we cannot predict the weather.