Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

Will the Leader please invite the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to address the Seanad? These farmers must be paid. We need an urgent debate on this. It is not fair to scapegoat farmers, who do not leave the country but continue to work, even when they are unemployed. Now they find themselves in difficulty in paying for basics.