Nicky McFadden (Fine Gael)

I apologise. The supplementary budget saw the suspension of the young farmers' installation grant, cuts to the suckler cow welfare scheme, the fallen animal scheme and others. Dairy farmers work very hard, milking twice with little chance for holidays. It is outrageous they are being offered 20 cent per litre for milk when it costs 27 cent per litre to produce. An office for fair trading should be established, absorbing the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency, to oversee a code of practice for supermarkets and going some way to alleviating the crisis in the dairy sector.