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

I was not joking; I was serious. I believe in a good rasher for breakfast. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is alive to the issue. We have already allocated funding to the pigmeat industry. Just as we did in respect of Covid-19 when we helped an awful lot of enterprises survive by investing in them, we also want to keep a viable industry, the pigmeat industry, intact and viable because in normal times it is a productive industry that does well. The Minister is engaging with the sector to see if we can do more in the context of what already has been done for the industry. It creates a lot of jobs. What is happening now is beyond its control in terms of a disruptive market situation plus the Ukraine crisis.

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