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

I wonder how Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can stand over that decision. We will take no notice of the Green Party for a while. How do Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael think they can face the farmers? I was grateful when the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine did his tour of the marts. Would he like to go into the marts now and tell the farmers he is supporting the other Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who failed to sign the derogation he should have signed if he had any bit of common sense at all? The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is supporting that decision. He cannot say he is not because he is. I would like the Minister to answer that.

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