Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

I will set this matter to one side. I feel strongly about it and I hope the Minister will reply to the points I have raised. The quota is vital.

During the summer, Deputies were contacted by people asking whether there was a way of putting excess milk quota into a product. For example, since farmers were not going to get paid for it, could it be used in relief products? This matter relates to the quota's essence, namely, interference in markets. We were asked whether products could be exported to Somalia and so forth. As the Minister knows only too well, though, the EU tied this idea down in knots.

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