Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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A concern among the public, which Dr. Doyle Prestwich referenced, has to do with the sovereignty and integrity of food production and the domination of this area by four multinationals. Should we have done more as a country, ideally through Teagasc, research and our universities, to take a greater role and put more investment into it? Academics will always say that we should have given them more money, but with the benefit of hindsight, is that something that each European country should have done?