Noel Coonan (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister to the House and welcome the opportunity to debate the farm partnership package. While I welcome elements of the package, my complaint is that it does not go far enough. The package reminds me of the "Off the Rails" programme. If the programme makers picked out a fellow like me on Grafton Street, dolled me up, gave me a makeover and then put me out in weather conditions such as we experienced yesterday, after half an hour one would begin to see the real package emerge.