Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Returning to the efficiency of the herd, I note that we export 90% of our agricultural products. The European Commission's report on efficiency put us in first place for dairy and fifth place for beef. The European Union is an open market at the moment. Without oversimplifying it, is it said at European level that food must be produced somewhere because we need it to stay alive, and it is better for it to come from the more efficient producers that produce less greenhouse emissions? There is a distinct difference between highly pollutant food production and clean and efficient production. Is there a conversation about a hierarchy concerning who is the best boy in the class, as it were?