Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)

The Leas-Cheann Comhairle would know from his own constituency that stocking credit for farmers to provide the money to buy feed and livestock is not available and it is destroying agricultural activity, as my colleague, Deputy Crawford, and the leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Kenny, pointed out this morning. Farming enterprises form part of the small and medium enterprise sector and we should use our position to bring forward instruments within the NAMA legislation.

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