Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

The short reply is that any decision of this nature is ultimately a political decision to be decided by Government. We must await the recommendations of the implementation group and have consideration to those recommendations. However, it is ultimately a political decision.

I share the concerns raised by Deputy Flanagan in that I, too, represent a constituency with a significant agricultural output and where for a certain coterie of the farming community, income would be meagre, to be frank about it.

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