Paraic Brady (Fine Gael)
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I concur with what all my colleagues have said. Stress seems to me to be number one, as a farmer myself. People have mentioned late payments. It is the anguish of the whole thing and the pressures that banks and co-ops have put on. A farmer will pay his bills when he gets his money, no problem at all. The problem is when he does not have that money to pay the bills yet he has to buy fertiliser and feed and look after his stock. The loneliness at night time in the winter months, when he is inside in the house looking out or when it is raining and one thing after another. There is a whole aspect there that is missing.