Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Prior to the local elections, €100 million was announced for beef farmers.

As the Taoiseach well knows, we have spoken often enough about this in the Dáil. Beef farmers have been on their knees in recent years. It is a very serious crisis. How will this funding be distributed and rolled out? Farmers do not want the factory hierarchies to get the funding when it becomes available to the farmers.

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