Tom Barry (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a problem with this question. It is an absolute disgrace that this question has been tabled. The question asks the Minister what steps he is taking to promote the sugar industry. I have news for the Deputies opposite: we do not have a sugar industry. It is an insult to people like me and others who grew beet and worked in the factories that Members opposite would table a question like this.

It is absolutely unbelievable. Why do we not have an industry? We do not have an industry because a Fianna Fáil Minister in a Government of which Deputy Ó Cuív was a member shut it down and absolutely ruined our countryside.

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