Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

That is the way the Minister passes over this issue.

I have illustrated the hard fact. Like every other farmer, I am delighted to go through that system. In terms of organic farming, I put it to the Minister of State, that this is as near as we can get commercially to organic farming. When my calf is slaughtered in two years' time I do not want to discover——

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