Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Going by the kinds of planning permission, the Minister knows better than I what will happen. It is another three-card trick, and farmers have the worst of all worlds. Let the Minister or Minister of State stand up and talk to the REPS farmers. They have taken the ground from under them. Some of those on the Government benches would not know what a REPS farmer is. However, I guarantee that they will know it before the year is out.

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