Seanad debates

Wednesday, 2 July 2003

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements.

 

From now on, as Commissioner Fischler pointed out, Irish farmers can turn their attention to producing food for which there is a real demand in the marketplace. They can do so – this is where the real success lies – with the comfortable cushion the Minister has managed to achieve that guarantees them an income, even if they produce nothing. For somebody in business that is difficult to understand but that is the way it is. It is a very attractive platform on which to build a business, and I am sure farmers will take full advantage of it after they have spent the usual time complaining about the terms of the latest deal. As others have said, that is what we have to expect.

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