Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are not introducing a blanket system in which small business and farms are treated on a completely different basis. The Deputy will acknowledge that it would not be equitable or fair to single out one group of small businesspeople in his constituency and treat it differently. Where there is a public purpose to be achieved, such as securing farmland for building, releasing land to young farmers, consolidating holdings or providing for earlier transfer, that is a worthwhile achievement and that is what is being provided for.

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