Comments on: An Bord Snip: Agriculture http://www.irishelection.com/2009/07/an-bord-snip-agriculture/ Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Niall http://www.irishelection.com/2009/07/an-bord-snip-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-121134 Niall Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:54:00 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=9108#comment-121134 Everytime you suggest raising corporation tax, an economist dies. Everytime you suggest raising corporation tax, an economist dies.

]]> By: Tom Dunne http://www.irishelection.com/2009/07/an-bord-snip-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-121133 Tom Dunne Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:29:31 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=9108#comment-121133 Europe sends this money to farmers for a reason. It is not the farmers choice to depend on a cheque in the post. Its a very unfortunate result of very badly thought out CAP policies which were all fundamentally flawed. However this situation now exits and there is no easy way out. It is important for people to understand that the Irish government will and still receives the money intended to support the average farmers. But these new changes suggest that they keep it for themselves and not pass it on to the intended receipiants. The agriculture section supports jobs both directly and indirectly as does any manufacturing industry. The cuts in the report go far beyond placing a fair tax on the farming sector. They completely remove an income from the industry. Killing an industry. No economist can really recommend the killing on an industry in a down turn can they? It makes as much scene as raising corporation tax. Europe sends this money to farmers for a reason. It is not the farmers choice to depend on a cheque in the post. Its a very unfortunate result of very badly thought out CAP policies which were all fundamentally flawed.
However this situation now exits and there is no easy way out. It is important for people to understand that the Irish government will and still receives the money intended to support the average farmers. But these new changes suggest that they keep it for themselves and not pass it on to the intended receipiants.
The agriculture section supports jobs both directly and indirectly as does any manufacturing industry. The cuts in the report go far beyond placing a fair tax on the farming sector. They completely remove an income from the industry. Killing an industry. No economist can really recommend the killing on an industry in a down turn can they? It makes as much scene as raising corporation tax.

]]> By: Imelda Fitzgerald M.Agr. Sc. http://www.irishelection.com/2009/07/an-bord-snip-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-121121 Imelda Fitzgerald M.Agr. Sc. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:45:23 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/?p=9108#comment-121121 I think the cutbacks will be worse than post famine. It will drive small farmers and shops out of business, make it more difficult for farming sons get an agr education, receive advice of a technical nature and outsource schemes to many who have no understanding of farmer's low literacy levels, isolation etc. It has clearly proposed to snip a massive hole in farmer's pockets. Some of those elderly farmers who struggled through the 50's & 60's with no arse in their pants must now bear the brunt of Bertie's Celtic Tiger's roars with scant rural transport, lack of finance, punitive drink and smoking laws, hospital cutbacks etc. There will be a lot more than the garda stations, rural PO's. and small primary schools going. The effects on the fabric of rural life, family home life and general wellbeing will be catastrophic. Where do they see the farmers in 2020? I think the cutbacks will be worse than post famine. It will drive small farmers and shops out of business, make it more difficult for farming sons get an agr education, receive advice of a technical nature and outsource schemes to many who have no understanding of farmer’s low literacy levels, isolation etc. It has clearly proposed to snip a massive hole in farmer’s pockets. Some of those elderly farmers who struggled through the 50′s & 60′s with no arse in their pants must now bear the brunt of Bertie’s Celtic Tiger’s roars with scant rural transport, lack of finance, punitive drink and smoking laws, hospital cutbacks etc.

There will be a lot more than the garda stations, rural PO’s. and small primary schools going. The effects on the fabric of rural life, family home life and general wellbeing will be catastrophic. Where do they see the farmers in 2020?

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