IFA: Acts of ‘dying’ government must not jeopardise livelihoods

THE livelihoods of 128,000 farming families should not be put in jeopardy by political changes introduced in the last days of the Government, according to IFA president John Bryan.

The farm group leader told delegates at the IFA’s AGM in the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin yesterday that the IFA would continue to resist any measures that put farm incomes at risk, such as the Climate Change Bill due to be voted on later today.

“I want to make it absolutely clear: the future of 128,000 farm families, and the future of our economy, cannot be jeopardised by the irrational ideology of the Greens in the dying days of this Government,” said Mr Bryan. “I am calling on all senators and TDs to put jobs, exports and economic recovery first and to reject this bill, until the legitimate concerns of our agri-food sector are dealt with.”