Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We did not even get a copy of the Minister of State's reply. This is balderdash and total bunkum. It is also Green Party policy. Talking about growing clover and mixing things is an insult to farmers. The chairman of the agriculture committee is sitting behind the Minister of State. He knows this. The Green Party is codding Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is shocking. It is destroying agriculture, and destroying Ireland for that matter. We will take decades to recover. Credit unions are trying to bail out farmers and give them loans to buy the fertiliser but what will happen then? We talked about the cost of living for two hours earlier. The cost will be added on to the price of food. The Minister of State knows that; she is from a farm herself. The Government needs to cut out the codswallop and codology and intervene. The EU Commission said member states can intervene but the Minister of State stands idly by and rubs her hands and looks as if she cannot do anything. Of course she can but she does not want to because Green Party policy is to destroy the farmers and wipe out the farming communities completely. We are going to have a wasteland like Jurassic Park where people can come on holidays. It is shocking.

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