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

First, the Minister is probably familiar with the Derrypatrick project and the understanding of farmers that processors, Teagasc and everybody else involved in the project were encouraging them to produce 18 month old bull beef because it was not economical to produce it at the age of 16 months. Now we suddenly find the same processors will not buy such beef.

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