BUNCRANA-based
Councillor Pádraig MacLochlainn has joined his
party's agriculture spokesperson in calling for a
sound strategy to ensure the survival of the west's
fishing and farming sector.
Cllr MacLochlainn accompanied Deputy Martin Ferris
in Galway this week for a number of meetings with
farmers and rural groups. |
Sinn Féin is currently
meeting groups as part of the process of collecting
submissions for an Oireachtas agriculture committee
report on farming and fishing in the west of
Ireland. Farmers and members of the fishing sector
are being invite to make submissions to form part of
the report.
“It is particularly important at a time of crisis
for both farming and fishing, that Leinster House is
aware of |
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as wide a range of
views and proposals as represented by the different
organisations and interests involved," said Deputy
Ferris. "Fishing is particularly in the news at the
moment, but farmers are still facing a possibly
disastrous WTO deal if the Mandelson Proposals are
accepted."
Sinn Féin believes that further exposure to meat
imports could have a "particularly devastating"
effect on rural communities.
The party urged people to contribute their views to
help "energise a strategy for the prosperous future
for the rural economy in the west".
Submissions to the Oireachtas agriculture committee
report can be sent to Deputy Ferris' office in
Leinster House before Friday, September 19, 2008.
They will then be considered by the committee. |
