Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

——she has no influence where it counts most. It is one thing to have influence in County Donegal but it is another matter to have it where she is paid to have it, namely, in the heart of European politics. She does not have it there and that is what is wrong.

I am in favour of organic farming, but if the Minister of State, Deputy Sargent, believes, as Deputy Creed said, that we can organise a huge commercial enterprise like Irish agriculture to be totally organic——

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