Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

No, this person was misrepresented. Second, a number of those who are pontificating never put a red cent into the industry in the past 20 years. Third, my scheme is specific to Annex 1 and a small part of Annex 2. We are driving the policy initiative in providing the funding and Enterprise Ireland is delivering the project. In the case of Annex 2 products, Enterprise Ireland still has considerable resources available to it to engage in joint ventures and support packages for producers of cheese, flavoured milks or yoghurts or for producers of other such products.

There is an issue concerning the case to which Deputy Crawford referred. The Minister of State and I met representatives of that company and the issues involved are being ironed out on behalf of the company.

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