Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. Graham stated farmers should pay for waste product being sent to the Continent. That is what he said and it will be on the record of the House. The calves from the dairy herd are not a waste product. As I stated, factories have intensively promoted Angus and prime beef schemes for the past five to ten years, as has Bord Bia. The idea that this product of the dairy herd is a waste product should be forgotten. As the Chairman stated, pitting farmer against farmer is not the way to solve the beef crisis. Anyone involved in beef is losing money. Crossbred dairy cattle are being sold and suffering on the grid, more extensively than they should. I could not let the comment that they are a waste product pass without being contradicted.