Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-14-Speech-1-101"
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"Mr President, I welcome this debate. We cannot do much about many of the problems which have been mentioned, but others we can do an awful lot about. Colleagues have mentioned particularly the problem of over-regulation; that is something that many farmers mention throughout the European Union. People also mentioned GM foods, and I totally agree with them on that: there is need for action in that area.
However, one area which I think is also important to us is the area of live exports. There is a danger that we are going to put so many regulations in place that it will be cost-prohibitive, particularly for farmers and people exporting cattle from an island nation like Ireland.
Sometimes I think it would be interesting to compare, for instance, the travel schedule of MEPs coming here to Parliament today with the travel schedule of animals being exported overseas, and I think sometimes the stress levels on MEPs might be greater.
In that regard we would need to be very careful and not over-regulate and price ourselves out of the market."@en1
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