Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I welcome any support measures. Does the Minister accept that it is pointless to get an increase in quota when we do not have an increased market? Clearly, increased production at European level and elsewhere has affected the price. How can he give such a positive view of the world market when production in the US and elsewhere is constantly increasing? The US, in fact, is now using storage systems to prop up its own market. Can the Minister assure us that he will exert maximum pressure to increase the use of intervention and other measures to underpin the drastic prices available at present?

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