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- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: There will be nobody left.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: We do not have the spin doctors.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: Some â¬50 million available under the REP scheme has not been drawn down.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: They have no morale.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: Where are they going afterwards?
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: Discussion is no good when the Minister is failing to deliver.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Senator no longer wishes to be provocative.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Senator had something to say from afar the other day.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: On a point of order, will we be allowed additional time to compensate for the interruption?
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: That is unfair to this side of the House.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: There are three sides to this conundrum.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: I support Senator Coonan's amendment, despite the fact that it was criticised as lacking in substance by Senator Dardis. I remind Senator Dardis of the second line of the Government motion, which states the House "notes with approval the stated intention of the Minister". Every farmer in Ireland realises what those stated intentions are regarding agriculture. They represent inaction and the...
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: He is the longest serving Minister for Agriculture in the history of the State, but I never thought I would see the day when a Minister for Agriculture would say in the Oireachtas that in order to avoid the abandonment of land, with resultant environmental problems, recipients of direct payments will also be obliged to maintain their land in good agricultural condition. What message does that...
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: The Minister of State cannot say that. If he were in east Galway he could not make a statement like that.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: The reality is that Teagasc has had to reduce its budget by â¬15 million. Two out of every three future appointments to Teagasc have been frozen. This is the only advisory service in the State and that is what the Minister has imposed on it. The Minister denied that â¬150 million was returned as unspent under the REP scheme because of the failure of farmers to get involved. They are leaving...
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: Most of it came from the Government side of the House.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: That is the second time we have heard that tonight.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: What about 1977?
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: That is an insult to this House.
- Seanad: Fischler Proposals for Agriculture: Motion. (12 Feb 2003)
Ulick Burke: I knew the Senator had an agenda.