Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I also respectfully ask the Government to help the pig industry through the prolonged crisis it is experiencing at present. I thank the Minister for meeting many of the pig farmers yesterday. There are 8,000 jobs in the pig industry. They are currently losing between €40 and €50 per pig. Feed has gone up from €270 a tonne to €430 a tonne, and they have been told it is going up a further €70 a tonne next week. There are pig farmers all over Kerry, at Killorglin, Causeway, McAuliffe’s and Knocknagoshel. We have the Roughty Valley pig operation on our own road, the Bog Road in Kilgarvan, which was set up in 1972. It has been run successfully by Christy Hussey and has been environmentally friendly for many years. This is on our own road, where my own father and I were born and reared. It would hurt us deeply.

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