Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

In January, I will organise a forum with city and county managers where we can harmonise and bring some consistency to the way in which farmers' markets are organised throughout the country. That is all part of the help which is both practical and legal for me to give.

I will look at other areas, for example, indirect payments such as the organic farming grants, which, again, are of major assistance to people on many of those stalls, and REPS financing. Indirectly, hopefully, we can show that we have the financial as well as political commitment to developing farmers' markets.

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