Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

The chickens are coming home to roost following the loss of IFI, which has resulted in increasing costs for importing fertiliser. We do not know the exact content of fertilisers imported from third countries because there is no policing of urea and other contents. The Department should put in place some policing mechanism to ensure the content is what it says on the tin. This has permutations for growers and crop production generally.

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