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

When the Minister was president of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, for some extraordinary reason he agreed to a mandatory scheme for young farmers that discriminated and excluded many farmers under 40 years of age from the benefits of the scheme. Apparently, the way he agreed to the scheme being written did not allow country discretion to allow these farmers to benefit from the schemes. In other words, the Minister did not allow himself the discretion to deal with the so-called "old young farmers" who have been so badly discriminated against by him. Is he going to take steps to deal with this matter?

See this speech in context