Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)

He was a Fianna Fáil cumann member but will not vote for Fianna Fáil again because of what it did to the beet industry. Whose interests will the Minister look after in the compensation package? Will it be the farmers who have put their heart and sweat into the beet industry in recent years or will it, as in the past, be Greencore?

Can the Minister envisage beet being grown here in coming years as an alternative energy crop?

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