Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

That is on the basis that it is for sugar production only. The price of sugar has spiked and sugar production in Brazil is at an all time high at the cost of our rain-forests and when we could be producing it. The auditors' report states that limiting to 85% of EU demand places a constraint on a strategic product, one that goes beyond just sugar. I challenge the Minister to revisit the matter with the Commission. The same situation obtained in the case of Mulder milk. The Minister should revisit the scenario.

Previously, money was paid out that did not preclude an issue from being revisited. The circumstances in this case have changed entirely. Will the Minister examine the auditors' comments on the 85% acting as an inhibitor in many ways? This issue goes beyond sugar production, although that element is important in its own right, given the prices.

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