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"Mr President, I would say this to the Commissioner: If you will forgive the pun, the milk crisis is something the Commission has made a pig’s ear of, a saying we have in Ireland when somebody has made a complete hash of something.
Only 18 months ago, you were saying that milk prices would increase substantially, only to see them fall by half in some countries. This is why the Commission must be able to intervene more quickly in the market, and this motion is positive in that respect.
In my constituency of Munster in Ireland, many in the dairy industry, both big and small farmers, and particularly family farms, are just subsisting or are just teetering close to bankruptcy. They are looking at their difficulties and the paltry amounts being offered while others, like banks and bankers, are being bailed out to the tune of huge sums.
The EUR 280 million milk fund announced yesterday is welcome but is merely a sticking plaster over a much wider problem. The House voted last September that EUR 600 million should be made available. In the interests of showing solidarity with small farmers in particular, this figure should be maintained. The next priority for the Commission must be to address the whole issue of milk supply. I firmly believe this. Until this is addressed, we will be facing more problems and we are quickly going to run out of sticking plasters."@en1
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