177. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine or commission a study into the damaging environmental and social impacts of the business-led industrial model of Irish agriculture, specifically in circumstances in which only a small cohort of farmers seem to benefit from dairy expansion plans; and his views on the fact that only 20% of farmers receive 80% of CAP payments and that Ireland exports 90% of the amount that is produced in the State, while also importing five and a half million tonnes of grain to feed livestock. [17059/22]

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177. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine or commission a study into the damaging environmental and social impacts of the business-led industrial model of Irish agriculture, specifically in circumstances in which only a small cohort of farmers seem to benefit from dairy expansion plans; and his views on the fact that only 20% of farmers receive 80% of CAP payments and that Ireland exports 90% of the amount that is produced in the State, while also importing five and a half million tonnes of grain to feed livestock. [17059/22]

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