Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A few comments have been made already by people in here who do not a lot about farming and the record needs to be corrected. The University of Oxford has done a study. It is printed in the Irish Farmers' Journal, for anyone who wants to read it. The article, entitled, "Sewage worse for rivers than farming", refers to treated or untreated sewage. The Deputies should get the Irish Farmers' Journal and have a read of that article. They might learn something about agriculture.

To get back to my question on policy or legislation, under agriculture, is the Taoiseach concerned about the Agriland figures published today? The number of cattle in the country has reduced by 4% to 6% in the past year, the suckler herd has gone down again and the number of sheep has also reduced by a large amount. Will the Government do something about that?

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