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"Mr President, before I begin can I remind everyone that it is not a question of beet or grain. In Ireland, beet was grown in a mutually beneficial rotation with wheat.
Commissioner, sugar restructuring in Ireland was a disaster. It was handled badly by the company Greencore and our Minister for Agriculture. Many of my constituents have suffered and social displacement is widespread, which is why the least we can do is go back and compensate these people.
Our hope of having a rational biofuels industry that was integrated, rather than competing with food production, was set back by years, if not destroyed. When I approached the Commission to try to head off disaster, I was told that the scheme was set and that to tamper with it, even for a good reason, would unravel the whole thing. But now we are tinkering with the scheme. Is it not possible at this stage of adjustment to do something about the mess left behind in Ireland?"@en1
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