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- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us the opportunity to speak on this motion. As a rule, most Deputies are very interested in discussing this important topic but it is clear to anybody who reads this motion that it is nothing short of a political ploy by Fianna Fáil and an attempt to drive a wedge between the farming community and the Government. If the party was serious about the...
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: -----and fight tooth and nail for this country because what this Government needs is support. I respect that Deputy Ó Cuív is new in holding the agricultural portfolio but-----
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: -----he should put on his thinking cap and see there is a broader agriculture there than the kind he talks about in the west of Ireland and the hills about which he talks so plainly.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: There are productive and commercial farmers right across Ireland who can give a great amount to this economy.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: These are the people who actually support and help it and that is the reason Kerry Group announced such a massive development, bringing 800 jobs to the middle of Ireland. Hopefully, this will happen in other parts of the country. We should support this Minister on the road he goes.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: He has a very tough job on his hands and I wish him well. That is the most important thing. Rather than put this motion to the House, I suggest that every Member stands four square behind the Minister to help the farmers of Ireland and the country. The Members opposite would be doing a far better job in that rather than politicising as they have done tonight.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Shame on them for doing so.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Steady on.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: The reality.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: The Deputy's party left the country broke.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Where would the money for that come from? Who would it be taken from?
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: This is a motion on agriculture, yet the Deputy is talking about contractors and hauliers. Where would the money the Deputy is talking about come from?
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Where will the money come from?
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Fianna Fáil let them away with it long enough.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: The Deputy is playing to the people in the Visitors Gallery now, but they understand money is needed. Where will the money come from?
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: It is great to have him back as spokesman.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Well done lads.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: It was Charlie Haughey who said that, when he was Minister for Agriculture.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: Charlie did not do much for farmers.
- Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)
Tom Hayes: He put them in jail. That is what he did.