Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

The Minister, Deputy Roche, is on public record saying how well the Government has catered for environmental issues by virtue of what it has done regarding agriculture. The biggest contribution this Government has made to agriculture is that it has run it down. I assume this country will not have a food processing sector.

I want to outline the details of what happened. When Fine Gael first published its policy on energy 18 months ago, the Government looked at it, read it and copied it, but that was all it did.

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