Rural TDs’ bill to ‘protect’ Irish family farms from vulture funds

Mattie McGrath told the Dáil: “Our bill would pave the way for a new State-run institution to extend low-interest credit to all farm enterprises in a specialised manner."

This bill would create a "policy platform to tip the scales back in favour of landowners and farmers".

The Government has “facilitated vulture funds and banks to seize and sell” farms in Ireland “for too long”, rural TD Mattie McGrath has said.

The Rural Independent Group of TDs has introduced a bill that aims to "protect" the family farm from vulture funds and provide for the availability of low-interest credit to farmers. The bill was drafted on behalf of the Rural Independent Group of TDs by the former Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan.