The Government has let the people down badly in its defence of this point. As assertion in this House that the European Court of Auditors is wrong when it had all the facts before it constitutes misinformation and the Minister should rectify this point. The report states the papers show that Greencore justified its point in respect of a risk and not on a fact. The company made its decision "due to the risk of lower prices", and so closed Mallow upon a risk. It did not even wait to ascertain what would happen as the risk of lower prices was enough for it to pull the rug and move on, as it perceived it, to the Celtic tiger and the development of Carlow and Mallow to make more money for its shareholders. As Deputy Sherlock has rightly stated, it forgot the people who had put the industry there as well as all those who had supported it, including farmers of all sizes.

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