Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Farmers around the country, especially in the west, are still in serious trouble. They are very disappointed that the Government and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine have not listened to calls for help. Is there not a special emergency fund that can be accessed from the EU? Many farmers on good land are only now leaving out some of their animals, as grass has now started to grow, but in County Kerry and all of the west, farmers cannot get their animals out. Will the Taoiseach do something for them or give them a subsidy? Their backs are to the wall and they have never been in a worse position. The Taoiseach is not listening to them and that is very wrong. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is from very close to where I am from, but he is not aware of what the people in Kerry are going through. When the sun was shining here in Dublin last week, it was pouring with rain in the south of Ireland. The Minister must do something for farmers.

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