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

Farmers are under savage pressure with the increased costs of fertiliser, fuel and electricity. I welcome the €1,000 proposed by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine for 10 ha. While it is not an awful lot, it is a lot in a way. There are many farmers in east and south Kerry who do not cut their own fodder on their own land because the land is not suitable. We rely on people like Finbarr Marshall from Ballygarvan and Flor O'Brien from Kenmare to draw the fodder from other places like Cork. Will the Minister include something for those people? Will the payment be made as soon as possible because many farmers just do not have money to carry on?

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