Natasha Newsome Drennan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Merchants are at the heart of the community, especially in rural Ireland. Both the equine vet and the cattle vet are run off their feet. We ring them and they are racing. It could be all hours of the night and they are racing around. They are already run off their feet. It is madness.