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Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Minister should withdraw his allegation.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Minister is a disgrace.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy has not held that position.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: For the withdrawal of the installation scheme and the early retirement scheme.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy has changed his tune.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy is totally out of contact.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy has some neck to talk about bankruptcy given what is happening in the country today.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Deputy Treacy has some neck.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy is singing my tune. The Commission agreed to it. It was only a case of asking.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: What about installation aid?

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: He did not even try.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: The Deputy should not go there.

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: Does Deputy Behan hear that?

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: I thank my colleagues for their support for the motion. I thank all the Deputies who contributed. In particular, I thank the Labour Party and Sinn Féin for their support for the motion. I am particularly disappointed at the level of Government backbench interest in the motion. Apart from coming in delivering prepared scripts and disappearing, there does not appear to be any grasp of the...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: ——what is the future for those 3,000 farmers who cannot meet their legal requirements under the nitrates directive?

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: They will go out of business because they will not be able to afford to 100% fund it themselves, or else they will operate outside the law with all of the consequent detrimental impact on the environment which none of us in this House wants to see happening. Whether it is 3,000 or 12,000, or as I suggest somewhere in between, those farmers will be put out of business. That is the legacy that...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: At least Deputy Behan concluded his remarks by stating that he did not know much about farming, and that probably explained much of it. A deal of what I heard from others, but particularly from Deputy Treacy, showed a clear failure to grasp what is at stake in terms of this motion. All of the points have been made quite clearly. The Government has form on this one, as somebody referred to...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: We will take no lectures or lessons from Deputy Treacy about the merits of Fianna Fáil and, as Deputy Coonan articulated, the closure of the sugar industry by a series of Fianna Fáil agriculture Ministers. I am disappointed, for example, that the two Independent Deputies who represent rural constituencies have not seen fit to attend at all, namely Deputy Healy-Rae and Deputy Lowry, the...

Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: This is an opportunity for the Government to redeem itself in the eyes of farmers and the wider community whose jobs in construction depend on it. I recommend the motion to the House.

Planning Issues. (16 Oct 2008)

Michael Creed: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for the opportunity to raise this matter and to express my disappointment that I do not have the Minister or a Minister of State from the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to take the issue — no reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews. I would appreciate it if the issue was brought to the attention of the relevant Ministers...