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

I am pleased to say that, during all of my engagements with the Commissioner, whether on this issue or any previous issues that arose about any particular sectoral aspect of the Irish agricultural and food industries, he has been most responsive to the concerns we have raised and I think most farm organisations would acknowledge that. He has worked within a framework where he has to represent all European agricultural interests but, even in the context of that, Ireland is the only member state that got access to this €50 million from the Commission. No other member state is getting that. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is telling me, in his criticism, that he would prefer to be going to a Commissioner from Malta, Romania or Luxembourg-----

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