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

That is wrong as well. It is wrong that this will be calculated as part of the assessment. We know farmers have done their best through the generations to hand the farm on to the next generation in as good or better condition as when they got it in the first place. Insisting that someone who accesses the fair deal scheme must pay back €7,500 on each €100,000 of the value of the farm land would mean that €35,000 per year would be paid for three years in the case of a farm valued at €500,000. That would place a burden of €105,000 on a young farmer trying to take over a farm who would be behind as soon as he or she starts out. Credit is hard to get from banks and the other lending institutions. What this will most likely mean for young fellows who find themselves in this situation is that they will have to walk away and sell the farm that was handed down to them. The farm may have been in the family for five or six generations. Is that what the Government will allow to happen in this day and age? It is not fair and should not be the case.