Mr. Dermot Kelleher:

I just wish to make a point to Deputy Healy-Rae and the rest of the politicians. This is a total attack on rural Ireland and moreover on disadvantaged areas in rural Ireland. Deputy Healy-Rae made a great point because 20% is a kind of a con job. I know one farmer who rewetted his land and the water would be up over the roofs of all the lads beside me before it would come to me. Lads on top of hill will drown everyone else around them. It is grand to say that we should wet so much of the land but one cannot wet a piece of a field or a piece of a farm. I know of land that has been improved over three, four or five generations. The land has been improved nearly as far back as the time of the Famine. We now have a Minister who will go to Europe and accept all of this. He needs to watch Bull McCabe a few times and memorise how seriously people take to land they have improved.