Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I must repeat my questions because they are very serious. Will the Minister redouble her efforts in Brussels? I did not blame the Minister personally for what happened in Brussels under the regime of her predecessor and the Taoiseach. They led the negotiations and the results are there in black and white. The Irish Dairy Board can spell out day by day and week by week how the results happened. The Minister's comments are erroneous.

Will she make decisions at ministerial level that will increase the income of dairy farmers, not by much but by enough to act as a gesture of goodwill? If she has not already examined the disease and dairy inspection levies, will she please do so to make some gesture of goodwill towards a good industry, which was the best industry in the country but which is now under severe pressure?

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