Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I mentioned earlier, I look forward to meeting Macra representatives later this afternoon. We need more young farmers. We have lots of farmers in Ireland who are in their 60s and 70s often because they do not have a successor. I would be interested to hear from Macra representatives the ideas they have to improve succession because we need more young farmers. We are about to enter a decade of major change in agriculture and land use and we need young farmers to lead that. I look forward to talking to them about that today.

However, one thing I can assure the young farmers who are on their way to Dublin at the moment is that so long as this Government is in office, all the schemes and tax breaks that exist for young farmers will be protected. They do not have that guarantee from a left-led government.

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