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

Absolutely agreed. We must recognise that this it is a world issue and the Minister need not spell this out. The one certainty in life at present is that there is total uncertainty. We knew from the very beginning that price volatility would always be a big issue. The Minister mentioned the ban imposed by Russia. That is the type of issue which happens out of the blue and cannot be foreseen, but it must be built into the calculations. At what level has the Minister proposed that European Union intervention, in all of its forms, clip in? Milk must be at a realistic price, well north of 27 cent a litre, as otherwise we will have a problem. At what level has the Minister proposed to the European Union that the market supports should clip in and begin to stabilise the market? There is no point in allowing a big crisis to arise and then finding it is too late to deal with it.

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