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MacLochlainn meets farmers in the west 25.07.08

BUNCRANA-based Councillor Pádraig MacLochlainn has joined his party's agriculture spokesperson in calling for a sound strategy to ensure the survival of the west's fishing and farming sector.
Cllr MacLochlainn accompanied Deputy Martin Ferris in Galway this week for a number of meetings with farmers and rural groups.
Sinn Féin is currently meeting groups as part of the process of collecting submissions for an Oireachtas agriculture committee report on farming and fishing in the west of Ireland. Farmers and members of the fishing sector are being invite to make submissions to form part of the report.
“It is particularly important at a time of crisis for both farming and fishing, that Leinster House is aware of
Padraig Fahy of Beechlawn Organic Farm Producers, Galway, showing Cllr Padraig MacLochlainn, Cllr Dermot Connolly and Deputy Martin Ferris around his produce.
as wide a range of views and proposals as represented by the different organisations and interests involved," said Deputy Ferris. "Fishing is particularly in the news at the moment, but farmers are still facing a possibly disastrous WTO deal if the Mandelson Proposals are accepted."
Sinn Féin believes that further exposure to meat imports could have a "particularly devastating" effect on rural communities.
The party urged people to contribute their views to help "energise a strategy for the prosperous future for the rural economy in the west".
Submissions to the Oireachtas agriculture committee report can be sent to Deputy Ferris' office in Leinster House before Friday, September 19, 2008. They will then be considered by the committee.
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