Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Tá áthas orm deis a bheith agam labhairt ar an tábhachtach seo. I welcome the opportunity to speak to this motion. I extend a warm welcome to members of the farming community in the Gallery from my constituency of Cork South-West, which stretches from the Minane Bridge, Kilbrittain, Timoleague and Barryroe area to Ballinascarty and Ballinacarriga and includes many other areas. I have the honour of representing a constituency, which along with west Cork, is one of the worst affected constituencies in terms of bad harvest last year.

I will not be supporting the motion because it is flawed. It is a motion that gives an open chequebook to 11,000 cereal farmers. We need to look no further than North of the Border to see the result of poorly thought-out and poorly orchestrated schemes.

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