Cleary, Michael Thursday, 23 March 1944

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Committee on Finance. - Vote 29—Agriculture (Resumed).

This year?

They are not asked to produce wheat on poor land in Connaught.

This debate is dragging on at a laborious rate, and I am convinced from the speeches I have heard since it started that the Minister would not be justified in making the slightest change in his agricu...

They are not. They are only given subsistence allowance in individual cases. I have signed more forms for workers than the Deputy, because hundreds of them go from my district. It is only an individ...

Where did it go to? That is the point.

The major part of that £100,000,000 in the banks is farmers' deposits. I should not like to see this Government raiding the banks and taking the hard earnings of the farmers and of the farmers' sons ...

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