Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

Why has the Minister entirely ruled out revisiting the Health Check? As he said, we are under quota. In the current global economic environment, the demand for dairy-based products is reducing significantly over time. Has there been any political analysis of how that will pan out? Given our emphasis on milk-based production, there will be serious implications for the agriculture sector if there is no improvement in global demand. There will be little choice but to revisit the Health Check because it will have serious implications for how we produce dairy-based products into the future. I do not see how such a review can be ruled out emphatically without some degree of debate and analysis of where we are going.

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