Yes vote a call for more hyper-regulation

Farmers for No spokesman David Thompson - former Limerick IFA chairman.
re Padraig Walsh's call for Nitrates Directive derogation:

'Farmers have had enough of EU hyper regulation which is strangling our industry and way of life.

'Why should Farmers are being financially crippled by the Nitrates Directive vote for Lisbon and more hyper-regulation?
Why should turf cutters prevented from cutting turf by the EU Habitats directive, give more power to EU bureaucrats.
'No farmer will a an ounce of intelligence will ask for more form filling and hyper-regulation.
'A Lisbon yes vote hands more power and areas of competence over to EU instutitions. It's a bad practice to make this instittutions more powerful but less acccountable.

IFA leader Padraig Walsh would be better off campaigning to keep political power in Irish people's hands rather that begging for a derogation of EU law after it's too late.

The EU was good for farmers in the past. But Lisbon is about the future and things are changing rapidly. There is not more money in the EU for us. Post-Lisbon is going to be payback time for the Irish taxpayer.'

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