Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

Is the Minister happy that the new authority will be able to control some of the extremely serious situations involving the supermarkets and our large agricultural sector? They insist that money is paid up front for shelf space and so on. The food industry is currently under extraordinary and severe pressure. Farmers are getting only about a third of the price that the consumer pays for milk. Such issues must be dealt with, or we will end up with no production in this country and everything produced elsewhere.

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