Seanad debates
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Order of Business.
11:00 am
Feargal Quinn (Independent)
However, our farmers must compete with others who are employing modern methods of production. I acknowledge this is a highly emotional issue and that some are opposed in principle to genetically modified foods. However, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is the Commissioner with responsibility for innovation in the European Union. Clearly, she must identify genetically modified foods in this context. She will also need to consider nuclear energy, an area to which Senator Dearey referred. We have closed our minds to both topics, but they should be debated.
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