Post-European Council Meeting: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-11-03
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Danny Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

In the last section, I was just getting to asking the Minister of State to ensure that the export of dairy-bred bull calves will continue because there was an article in yesterday's paper suggesting this may not happen and that these environmentalists in Europe are trying to stop such exports. That would be a disaster for the Irish beef and dairy industry because it would increase the stock of beef animals and destroy the farming situation entirely. I appeal to the Minister of State to fight for the continuation of the export of dairy-bred bull calves because we are an island nation and it takes a good deal of time to get out of the country by boat or whatever.
When I raised the issue of fisheries and asked whether the fishermen were finished, the Minister of State shook his head. Will he expand on that while he is nodding his head?

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Sitting date: 2021-11-03