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

There is. I welcome this exchange because these are the dilemmas we need to address. I think everybody approaches these with good intentions. We need to protect the family farm. We also need to ensure that we protect active farmers. We need to protect the edifice that is the Irish agrifood industry. Production is important. Trying to find a balance between all those competing objectives is a challenge in the context of ensuring that we have an adequate budget. We need to scope out all of the issues in the context of the submissions we received and that is under way in my Department.

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