‘You need to get fighting’: Farming group representative tackles Charlie McConalogue over EU nitrates derogation
Separately, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party in government would “create a real and genuine partnership with farming”.
Asked about reports that a house owned by Sinn Féin, which was left to it in the will of William Hampton, who left millions in his will to the party, was lying vacant, Ms McDonald said that houses should not be left derelict. “We have a housing crisis, so the objective is for that house to be taken in hand, and ideally for someone to live in it,” she said.
“What are you proposing – and what you haven’t fought for and what your officials didn’t fight for at European level is going to make jack s**t difference to water quality.” Mr Coveney also dismissed any threat to the Fine Gael vote from a farmer’s alliance movement driven by rural independent TDs, ahead of the next general election.
Mr Coveney said that in making the decision to scrap quotas, there was an understanding among farmers of their “obligation” to the environment.
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