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

I suppose the Taoiseach is aware that a €5 million contract was lost recently. A Libyan cattle buyer who wanted to buy 400 bulls had applied for a visa in mid-November to come to this country to see what he was buying. To date, he has been given no account of the status of his visa. He has now gone to Spain to purchase these animals.

Previous taoisigh and Ministers for justice and agriculture would have gone to great lengths to get the likes of this man. They would have got the document that he was looking for from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, they would have flown to Libya for him and brought him here, and some Minister would have stayed with him for the three or four days that he was here. Are the Taoiseach and the Government in some way beholden to the factories?

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