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

I am finishing. It is hard enough to make money out of machinery when it is working. In many instances these machines have now stopped and these people are trying to hold on to those machines by trying to make the payments. They are in a really bad way, but the Minister could not care less about them. He does not give a damn about the traditional things, such as fisheries, farming and forestry. The Minister does not care about any of them. He does not care anything about the horticultural people. If he did, he would have been out there yesterday and out there today meeting with them. Why was he not? It is because he would run from them. He will not meet with them. He is an absolute disgrace and it gives me no satisfaction to say that.

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