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

-----and he has been trying to say that there is no harm in this agreement. How can he, as a senior Minister of long standing, and a man highly respected across the political spectrum, spend three minutes saying what he has just said? He is trying to sell the unsellable and defend the indefensible. This agreement is a direct attack on our farming community. How in the name of God can the Minister and the Government try to justify it?

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