Seanad debates

Wednesday, 6 November 2002

Agriculture and Food: Statements.

 

I congratulate the Minister on what he has achieved to date with the Council of Europe and I am confident that the successes achieved in the past on the Uruguay round and other negotiations at European level can be repeated. To be fair to the Minister, he did not do what one of his predecessors on the other side of the House did. I still have the press release – issued on the morning of a general election – stating that the Egyptian market had been opened when it had not. We can all point fingers but it is not useful to how the industry advances and progresses. I wish the Minister, his colleagues and everyone in his Department well in the challenges ahead and I am confident they will face them to the benefit of Irish agriculture and the country as a whole.

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