Fine Gael urges action on GM policy

FINE GAEL is seeking a full debate on the GM issue “instead of government policy being determined by awkward attempts at consensus between Fianna Fáil and the Greens”.

The party’s spokesman on agriculture and food, Michael Creed TD, said the best way to facilitate such a debate is to establish a Dáil committee on science and technology.

He said this would, as its first function, facilitate a fully informed debate on GM food, feed and crops and their use or otherwise in this country.