Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is an area that we have discussed on many occasions. I recognise that the issue facing the horticulture and mushroom sectors is not necessarily of the Department's making but it has been allowed to develop into a full-blown crisis. This Department, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, all have a role on this. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, responded to me in a parliamentary question stating that oversight for resolving this crisis rests entirely with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I would like to know what will be done about it.

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