Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

The ultimate aim is to ensure that all of these measures will have such an impact. Farmers often complain that processors are the first to benefit from many of the measures that are taken. Deputy Creed has proposed another intervention on the processors' side. Like all of us, the Minister would like the prices being paid to farmers to increase as quickly as possible. All the indicators suggest that the price of milk, which is entirely cyclical in any event, will return to previous levels in the medium term.

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