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Regionalising post-Brexit jobs

Summary

Senator Joe O’Reilly urges the IDA to direct post-Brexit investment and employment into the regions, then asks the Agriculture Minister to explain how new EU dairy aid will support smaller farmers.

Ba mhaith liom tréaslú go láidir leis an méid atá ráite ag an Seanadóir Frank Feighan mar gheall ar fhostaíocht tar éis an Brexit. Labhair mé ar an ábhar seo seachtain ó shin agus tá dualgas orainn rud éigin a dhéanamh faoi. Molaim an méid atá déanta ag an IDA ach tá sé riachtanach anois go meallfaidh sé na jabanna go dtí na réigiúin. Tá mé lándáiríre faoi sin agus tá mé ag súil go dtarlóidh rud éigin faoi.

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Having congratulated and endorsed the words expressed by Senator Frank Feighan about the great importance of regionalising jobs, I welcome the announcement made by the European Commission and specifically Commissioner Phil Hogan that €11.1 million will be targeted at dairy farmers to help them to deal with difficult prices. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to attend the House at the beginning of the next session to debate and discuss, in a detailed manner, how to direct help at the smaller dairy farmers and help them to survive. We must parallel that effort with looking at international markets and seeing where to establish new markets. I do not think we have fully exploited the Chinese market yet. I talked to people from Taiwan the other day who also have tremendous potential to accept more product from us and the same applies to a number of countries. We must examine the whole market in question in order to overcome the problem in commodity pricing in the dairy sector. The problem affects a lot of dairy farmers in counties Cavan and Monaghan and throughout the country. The pricing problem will spread to the beef sector shortly. All of which makes this a very serious problem. I appreciate the Cathaoirleach's indulgence. I say to the Leader that I would like to know that we will act on the agricultural pricing crisis shortly.

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