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

The Deputy rubbished the idea of an audit then. That audit was concluded and, at that stage, indicated a deficit of almost 30%. The most recent audit, which the Deputy is obviously unaware of, showed that we had, through a series of initiatives, including a tillage initiative, an imports initiative, extending the chemical and organic fertiliser deadlines, flexibility around the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, and a stakeholder group working to deliver messages to farming individually, closed that the gap to 11%. The critical message between now and the end of the growing season and, fortuitously, we are enjoying something of an Indian summer-----

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