Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion.
The Government must respond to the farming crisis. Big producers who produce 500 or 600 cattle annually – up to 2,000 in some cases – are being subsidised. They get several euro per head more from the meat plants than small farmers, a matter which the Minister has not investigated. Some of the barons, the Brosnan's and Goodman's, have the Minister where he is today.
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