Departmental Meetings
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-21
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

Farmers in Ireland are suffering big style currently. One third of farmers are currently making a loss. They are not even making a living out of their farms. Another one third of farmers currently have to work off the farm to make a living. Only a third of existing farmers are making a living out of their farms. Many of them are living in fear. They want to do the right thing on climate change but they feel this Government is disproportionate in loading the climate costs on their families, while at the same time opening data centres, importing Brazilian beef, etc. When will this Government treat rural and regional Ireland as more than a box-ticking exercise? I apologise to Deputy Boyd Barrett. I got the constituency wrong.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-21