Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Hayes is interrupting because he is feeling sore about the truth.

Again, to quote another saying in Irish, tá an fhírinne searbh ach sí an fhírinne í. The Minister can translate that one for himself. I am once again calling on him to give aid to those farmers who lost all of their silage and face financial catastrophe because of the very poor summer this year. All farmers accept the general ups and downs of agriculture but where somebody faces total devastation of his or her livelihood, I believe aid is warranted. Instead of coming to the aid of these farmers, the Minister has stood idly by all summer and has not acted in any pro­active way to help farmers.

The only gesture the Minister made was on the single farm payment, which would in any event have been paid in October and in respect of which he admitted that nothing exceptional is being done this year. It is paid in October every year.

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