Baxter, Patrick FrancisWednesday, 18 November 1925 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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AGRICULTURAL CREDIT SOCIETIES. - MOTION BY DEPUTY BAXTER.
I move:—“That the Dáil is of opinion that the establishment of Agricultural Credit Societies has failed to afford the necessary relief to farmers who lost their live stock through disease in 1924-25, ...
Yes. In my county we came to the conclusion that if the project was to get a fair chance of success it should be outside politics altogether. Towards that end I had discussions with Deputy O'Reilly, ...
No.
No. Now, apart from what I did, the Minister informed me yesterday that on the 26th June last a decision was come to in this Dáil that these credit societies would be set up. We are practically now a...
Perhaps you can afford to. That total loss of 380 head of cattle is made up of 56 cows, 42 two-year-olds, and the remainder of yearlings. That is a district in which the farmers would be expected to ...
The Minister was not inexperienced, surely.
If I may interrupt the Deputy, I am not asking the Dáil to condemn it at all. I am asking the Dáil to agree that it has failed to afford the necessary relief to farmers who have lost their stock thro...
Will the Deputy not misinterpret, or try not to misinterpret, the terms of the motion?
That is specifically stated in the motion.
Does the Deputy suggest that we ought to pretend that something is a success which the Minister knows is a failure and which the Deputy knows is a failure?
Unfavourable, unfortunately.
Might I ask the Deputy how many credit societies have been established in his constituency? What has he done in the past five months to spread the light? How many of these societies are going to be e...
What does the Deputy think of what the Northern Government did?
I do not think he did.
Meant seriously.
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