Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

It was a voluntary restructuring approach. The approach involved the individual producer, that is, the processor or company, rather than the farmer. They are referred to in the report as "producers" whereas we would call them a processor or company. On Deputy Wall's question, which he has raised twice, I want to quote the response of the Commission to the report of the auditors. It is very important from the point of view of efficiency, profitability, etc. I want to put on the record of the House the success of the industry and the commitment of individual farmers, workers and the different processing plants over the years. There were plants in places other than Mallow which, unfortunately, closed.

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