Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will have to make sure it is focused and targeted, and in this sense the analogy was not inappropriate. As I stated, in the amendment we are committed to dealing with the other issues that remain outstanding, and there are many of them, and much work is under way with regard to support for branding Irish ruminant feed. This is an initiative of the farming organisations and I was involved in ensuring we can underpin the expanding microbrewery and distillery sector. This is something to which I am committed to exploring.

I want to nail as a blatant untruth the idea that I would not support an initiative by others at European Union level to deliver aid for the Irish tillage sector. No matter how often Deputies Ferris or Fitzmaurice repeat the assertion, it is simply untrue.

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