Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

I had no intention of taking someone else's slot. I will conclude. While I had a great many other matters I wished to address, the Minister of State has been given the drift of my arguments. I am sorry someone like him did not have an input into the provisions in the Finance Act on fragmented farms to ensure a group approach was taken. Fragmentation tends to involve more than one farmer and it is regrettable the provisions of the Finance Bill did not take that into account.

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