Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They need supports and they will be provided with them. We need a more diverse approach to farming in income streams to give opportunities to farming. We need to work with farmers. As I said earlier, there is a very significant hunger in the farming community for its capacity to reduce costs through alternative energy solutions, and that is something that I am very supportive of, but again we need to accelerate that together with the microgeneration within farming in a different approach. Farmers are creative, innovative entrepreneurs, as we heard this morning. We want to support them on this agenda.

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