Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Common Agricultural Policy: Statements.
The point was made on the difficulty of continuing with 150,000 tonnes of butter in intervention. How do we continue that system to ensure that incomes are protected? The answer is that we do not continue that system to protect incomes. If we do, the European taxpayer, and indeed the Irish taxpayer, will ask, quite rightly, what we are doing with all this uneaten food in storage, piled there despite starving people throughout the world. How can anybody resolve or defend that? It is becoming increasingly difficult to defend it.
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