Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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May I interrupt for a moment? Exporting powdered milk may well be less sustainable than other methods but there will be a market for it. If people who receive that powdered milk now cannot get it in the future, they will have other problems such as the starvation I mentioned. I can see that we are not going to agree on this but I do not intend on letting any dog run off with a bone on this. I grew up on a farm. I was born and reared on the land and I lived and worked on the land for a good part of my life. I have a fair idea of what it takes to exist in most situations. I always resented it when people who claimed to be experts began to lecture me on how I should and could do the job better and more effectively than they could by living on their criteria.

I do not agree. We should meddle to the least possible degree with the productive sectors that we have because we have proven to be experts in those area. I repeat that we can produce more effectively and sustainably than anybody else and we continue to do that.