Bord Bia: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2026-02-04
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Michael Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

-----because that is getting the farmers of Ireland nowhere. Again, I am saying this not as a person with my finger wet, like these people across here.
I had to listen to another lady a while ago from the Social Democrats talking about farmers in Ireland. She is the woman who, when the Minister brought over Commissioner Roswall about the nitrates derogation and extending it, stood up at a meeting, and Mr. Gorman from the IFA was there and heard what she said, and tried to undermine and sabotage the nitrates derogation the Minister was trying to get extended on the farmers' behalf. We then have a politician here paying lip service to the farmers, the same as these people are.

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