Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

Thank you. With regard to the €2.3 billion we have for agriculture, we have a very important to job to do in agriculture in that TB is posing a grave threat to Ireland at present. I am so glad we have ensured we will have proper funding in place to eradicate TB and to arrest those figures and bring them down. At the same time, we are not in any way endangering or taking money away from other very important programmes we have, such as TAMS, ACRES and the support for the tillage men. We have managed to fund those properly, and at the same time properly fund, for example-----

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