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

I also noted in all the discussions on the Common Agricultural Policy that the only one of the Commissioner's proposals the Minister never refers to is the recommendation that special assistance be given to areas of natural constraint.

We hear much euphemistic talk about productive farmers, the implication being that the farmers in receipt of large payments are responsible for all the production. In fact 70% of farmers receive single payments of less than €10,000 per annum and this group includes many productive farmers.

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