Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The single farm payment amounts to €8 million out of the €2 billion total. Some people in Brussels must be awful bored because, like a lot of things that people get excited about, this is peanut money in the greater scheme of things. This issue has caused a lot of personal grief to an awful lot of people, and has led to an awful lot of worry for older people, over a whole heap of nothing. It confirms my belief that European bureaucrats live in a rarefied and weird world that bears no relationship to my world.