McGuinness backs ‘struggling to survive’ dairy farming families

MANY farming families are struggling to survive as a result of the dire situation in dairy markets, according to MEP Máiréad McGuinness.

She made the comment to Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel at the European Parliament Agriculture Committee meeting in Brussels.

Ms McGuinness said the determination to abolish milk quotas by 2015 must be matched by firm commitments from the European Commission. These commitments must be to provide strong and effective market support measures for the dairy sector in the event of quota abolition.