Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is to the credit of Fianna Fáil when in government that it set in train Food Harvest 2020. Unfortunately since then, I have not seen any policy from Fianna Fáil in opposition in terms of the implementation of Food Harvest 2020 and taking those targets forward. However, let us consider progress on the targets so far. We have virtually achieved the target on beef already - in fact double the target set by Fianna Fáil, which was to increase the value of beef exports by 20%. We are already at 39%.

The target for increase in value of dairy outputs was 50%. We are already at 42% and we have not even moved away from quotas yet.

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