Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I listened to the Minister's appeal for everybody to come together on this issue. That was similar to the appeals on the nitrates directive, and as a result of the implementation of that directive some of the small pig producers have gone out of business. We want action. I represent a constituency that produces the highest level of poultry and pigmeat in the country. Farmers are waiting in anxious anticipation of practical measures. I know one can say it does not affect this or that, but the millers tell me that they are not in a position to buy product as they used to be. If we cannot buy product in the US and other places, the product that is produced from that grain in some other country will replace our products and our people will eat it.

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