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European Communities (Finance) Bill

The right hon. Gentleman has been talking about Ireland. I must tell him—we get on quite well with one another, so I hope that he will take this on board—that the Irish Government have just spent £300 million of taxpayers' money on propping up the Irish dairy industry. I am chairman of the all-party group on dairy farmers. How can our dairy farmers in the west of England and Wales compete when the Irish are so flagrantly contravening the spirit of the common agricultural policy?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
467 c1009 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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