Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion.
The attack the Minister has initiated upon the farming sector goes on and on. I will list the various instances of it: the doubling of disease levies, with the Minister taking €20 a head off the animals; cutbacks in education and the closure of agricultural colleges; the threat to alternative farm enterprises, such as organic farming, through the proposed closure of the college at Athenry; and the veterinary medicines Bill, if implemented, will double the cost to farmers, take €40 million out of their pockets and reduce veterinary usage.
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