Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

I accept the point Deputy Sherlock made. It is one I have made consistently, that those resources must stay within the farm gate and they are not for rural development. I am very much of the opinion that resources voted to agriculture must remain, in whatever systems are finalised - we know what are our preferences - within the farm gate and not be broadened out into the wider rural economy.

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