Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I can understand why some British people reacted the way they did. They were fed up with the envelope of regulation. I detest it myself because the bureaucrats run loose. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing. In any event, it is time the Minister tackled the issue in order to get the anti-dumping levies on fertiliser imports suspended in their current form. They are clearly set out to protect EU manufacturers of nitrogen and ammonium nitrate but somebody carries the can for that level of protection and in this case it is clear that farmers are carrying the financial burden of €50 to €60 a tonne of product. If it were abolished it would represent significant progress in that regard and send a signal of hope to a sector of the farming community that might well be lost in the next decade if we do not act.

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