Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of urgent national and local importance, namely, the proposal by the Government and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to pay the remaining unpaid farm waste management scheme grants in instalments, thereby treating farm families in a completely different, unfair and unjust way in comparison to their colleagues who have been paid in full already under the same scheme. It is essential that the legal aspects of this proposal be dealt with in full because a very large number of such farmers already have committed this grant funding to the banks.

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