Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. The problem is that the Government is putting money in so that the farmer will be left with little other option. If he or she wants to buy the land, he or she must plant it. That is the only thing he or she can do with it. We need to make other activities more viable. In addition, we have many people coming in who are buying land from other counties. These are farmers from other areas of the country, they are buying land in Leitrim and the local Leitrim farmers cannot compete with them because they have perhaps 300 acres in some other county where they are doing very well and they are dairy farmers who can come in and buy 40 or 50 acres of Leitrim and-----