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"Mr President, I could answer with a question, but I will be much more direct on this issue. The milk quota system failed to protect farmers from income price collapse in the past, which means that system failed. We have made a decision to scrap it. I wish we would not start talking about possibly changing that decision unless we are clear that can be the case. The decision has been made.
On the issue of milk production, my point is this: if the European Union, and Ireland as a Member State of the European Union, can produce milk competitively – and we supply Europe and beyond – we should be allowed to do that in a sustainable way. I am arguing here not against your point, but against this negative view that we restrict our production all the time, which has worked against us.
The quota system has introduced rigidity and high costs into our system. We can – using politics as Peter Jahr said – have a milk production system in Europe that feeds the global demand. Otherwise we are saying, ‘New Zealand you go do it’, ‘the US, you do it’, and that Europe will retreat. It is not good for farmers in Europe and it is not good for farmers in Ireland."@en1
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