Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am pleased the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is to investigate this issue and I hope the Minister will implement our proposals when we bring them forward. For the sake of the farmers of Ireland and an agrifood industry that employs 300,000 people, I hope we can finally rely on him to ensure that agriculture prospers and grows for the benefit of the entire nation. As Fianna Fáil spokesperson for agriculture, I am delighted to move this motion and I hope after today that agriculture will once again get the attention it deserves.

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