Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)

I accept that, but everybody involved in the beet industry in the past receives that single farm payment. Discussions have been ongoing with Greencore and the Government has its golden share with regard to the disposal of assets. Will the Government put forward the case that at the time the property was disposed of to Greencore, it was undervalued because of the impact of the golden share? It is now an extremely valuable asset, which should be part of the case being put by the Government.

As a result of this issue, the growers and contractors were hard done by in only getting a quarter of the available compensation, when such a very valuable land bank was being made available to Greencore at a knock-down price.

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