Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Fitzmaurice touched on a matter I was going to raise. Like him, I was that soldier who bought a few store lambs at this time of the year, basically to clean up the paddocks and, it was hoped, make a few bob. There was nothing in it. Between the odd fatality and the odd birth, I ended up with new ewes with lambs I had not planned on having. I have not done this in a few years and will not do it again. There are many more like me. What are the men who were selling the store lambs doing now? If they do not have the facility to finish them, or do not have a market or at least the same market they had, how will they get out of the position they are in?