James Bannon (Fine Gael)

—— is €15,557, which included the single farm payment. When import costs of €15,478, Government stealth taxes and other charges totalling €3,978 are taken into account, farmers are losing over €3,000 per annum. The average farming family is operating at a loss of €75 per week and this has revealed that the crisis in farming is worse now than ever. Farming incomes are lower now than ever, and the Minister cannot deny that she has presided over that. Irish farmers are being driven off the land and their livelihoods destroyed by this anti-farming Government. However, the day of reckoning is coming very soon for the Minister, her party's Deputies and the Government.