Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is widely known that it has played and will play a major role in helping our economy get out of its current difficulties. It is also widely known that the European budget announced yesterday will greatly affect the Irish economy. Listening to the Taoiseach this morning, I concluded that this would perhaps be a negative effect. It is also known that Irish agriculture has come out of that process poorly.

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