Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals to address the threat posed to pig and poultry farming and mushroom production by the maximum nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser limits of the nitrates directive; the predicament of County Monaghan pig and poultry farmers and mushroom producers in terms of having to dispose of surpluses of over 100,000 tonnes of poultry litter, 90,000 tonnes of spent mushroom compost, 150,000 tonnes of pig slurry and residual materials from public sewerage works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6082/06]

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