Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I fully agree with Deputy Kenny's sentiments in saying that dairy farmers have done well and the figures for 2017 look reasonable. We have come through a horrendous winter, and the Minister knows what farmers had to deal with. I am sure the income will be well down in the 2018 figures. The new CAP should be more flexible for people. I have a constituent who is a married man with five children and he has paid over €100,000 in interest to banks over the past ten years. He is being forced to sell his cattle. He is three years into the genomics scheme but is force majeurepossible for this farmer to allow him out of the scheme so he can sell his cattle and get himself out of trouble? He will be forced to do that.

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