John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If the Minister cannot redirect funds, as we have suggested, and which he claims is undoable, what can he do? He is the man in power, the man in government. That is why we have put the motion before him and why we are asking him to help the sector. Recognising what it does and does not do and how valuable it is is just words. We want to do something that will be of concrete help to a sector that is under threat from Brexit and which has already conceded 99,000 tonnes under the Mercosur trade deal. What is the point in bringing forward a proposal only to have it shot down with nothing put forward as an alternative? If the Minister cannot work on our proposal, we ask him to come up with one that works.

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