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

I have sympathy for the Minister's colleague, Deputy Kyne. When the full import of what the Minister has done and what he, as President in Europe, agreed to for hill farmers is fully understood - by December 2015 - he will then understand that he did not understand the reality of what he was doing. The issue is as serious as that.

I was amused by the Minister saying that farmers "obtain" the sheep. Where are they meant to buy them? Are they to buy them in a mart? If a farmer buys sheep from Gleanntreig, a valley at the back of Cnoc Breac, between Cornamona and Tourmakeady and puts them on a hill in Recess or Maam, the sheep will travel across the mountain to wherever they were born. We all know that. Therefore the only way-----

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