Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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I have a few questions. I was not able to attend earlier but I saw parts of the contributions. The suckler cow and beef farming sectors are in a critical state and farmers are very concerned. As Deputy Eugene Murphy said, the numbers attending meetings of the beef round table and beef forum prove that farmers in the sector are seriously concerned. There have been massive crowds of young and old farmers attending these meetings in Castleisland, Kenmare and all over County Kerry. Farmers feel they are at a crossroads. Much of the talk of climate change is rubbish. When one hears the Taoiseach suggesting that-----