Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Sure, I was not forgetting them in Kenmare, either. Suckler cow farmers are taking a lot of heat and a trouncing at present, with the cost of feed, meals and fertilizer. How can the fertilizer companies account for increasing the cost every year regardless of whether the farmers have a good or bad year? Is there no way to control this? We hear this morning of the cost of diesel fuel increasing. The talk is that the Government is increasing the cost of fuel. If it does that it is going to affect the farming community in a very adverse way. I ask the Minister, when he is around that Cabinet table, to do something to ensure that diesel does not go up in price any further, regardless of whether it is the Minister, Deputy Ross or the Green Party or whoever is calling for this because of climate change or whatever.