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Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: That great advocate and friend of the farming community, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, has connived with the Minister for Agriculture and Food to destroy the livelihood of every pig and poultry farmer in the country. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government appeared on television last night doing his level best to ensure...

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister does not want to answer.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: That is a three-card trick answer. The Minister should tell the House what she thinks of Teagasc.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: No Minister in the history of the State has done more damage in a year than this Minister. It is nothing short of outrageous that the sugar beet, pig and poultry producers are consigned to the bogholes of Ireland. They are gone. The Minister has wiped them out.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister does not even acknowledge their contribution. That is bad, but what the Minister is doing to the 50,000 farmers in REPS is nothing short of despicable. She and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government frightened the daylights out of the decent hard-working farmers who, being environmentally conscious, committed their farms——

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister may not like it but she should listen to it because it is true.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The farmers proved it was true when they walked out of the partnership talks this evening. The Minister is far from the CAP now.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I know the Minister does not like to hear this but she should listen.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Am I finished?

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I thought I was entitled to more because of the interruptions. I have many good things to say but obviously I will not get the chance to say them.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister has succeeded only in frightening the people in the front line.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: They thought they were the leaders and the Minister has pulled them all down to a common denominator until nobody knows where they are going. Unless this Government——

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister told the farmers that on 1 January this year, she was introducing the on-farm special scheme for pollution.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister negotiated that it should last for 12 months. Half the year has now passed, and there is still no scheme.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Going by the kinds of planning permission, the Minister knows better than I what will happen. It is another three-card trick, and farmers have the worst of all worlds. Let the Minister or Minister of State stand up and talk to the REPS farmers. They have taken the ground from under them. Some of those on the Government benches would not know what a REPS farmer is. However, I guarantee that...

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It is a different story at home now.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: They are very close to what the Minister is proposing. Stay in bed, Mary.

Future of Irish Farming: Motion (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The two Marys have delivered well.

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for the provision of a mobile wheelchair for a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been approved; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this person is becoming more dependent every passing day on the services of a wheelchair; if her attention has further been drawn to...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (7 Feb 2006)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 324: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the IDA has not secured an industrialist for the new IDA industrial park, Tuam, County Galway; the number of potential clients that the IDA has brought to the site to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4259/06]