Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister accept that without the single payment area aid, farmers in constituencies such as ours would have little income, if any? This is an extremely serious issue. The Minister said he has met other EU Ministers for agriculture, but will he make every effort to form a group to guarantee the single premium, rather than some other funding that would not be as beneficial to Irish farmers?

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