Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

——there were cutbacks. Installation aid, retirement benefits, farm grants and many other schemes were disbanded. The Deputies' memories are very short. There were also 12,000 applications in-house that were not processed and farmers were left without as a result. We have not acted in such a way; we have suspended a scheme until the economy improves and we will look after those people on another day.

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