Moher, John W.Thursday, 2 December 1954 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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I wish to second this motion. When I mentioned here a little over a week ago that the farmers were stunned and staggered as a result of the blow that had been struck them by the Government I was corr...
I refuse to be diverted, but I would remind the Minister again of his promise. I had a number of very close contacts with the Minister. My constituency is a constituency largely made up of small fa...
And his farmer supporters sit behind him looking very much like farmyard hens after a winter shower. (Interruptions.)
The Minister for Agriculture has of late made much play by calling in representative groups of farmers, in particular the representatives of Macra na Feirme. I am sure the Minister is aware that with...
He has had a long time since in which to wreak his wrath and vengeance on his colleague, the Minister for Industry and Commerce. What has he done about it? That was a national issue among small farm...
We had many times the amusing description of what the Minister found in Johnstown Castle—the churn and the bicycle wheel.
I beg your pardon. Is it now the policy of the Minister to eradicate the combine? Must he send the gentle maiden with her sickle to the wheat fields? Is not that very much what he is doing? He is ...
We revert to the old orthodox method of the reaper and binder and of the stacks in the fields where the destruction from vermin amounts to from 7/- to 10/- a barrel says the O.E.E.C. report. And agai...
What is the position of the farmers and the farming contractors who have gone into the credit corporations and into the banks and who have gone steadily and substantially into debt? Remember—and the ...
When the other sections of the community—the non-agricultural sections—were faced with starvation when this island of ours was an island besieged, the farmers of the country were called in to take the...
I warn the Minister that the same conditions now exist and that those irate farmers will rise up as they did in the spring of 1951 and depose him.
On a point of correction, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
What I did say was a very different statement. I do not want to be misquoted or to have what I said misinterpreted. What I did say was that the combine was the solution to a very acute labour probl...
I am not speaking for the County Dublin 1,000 acres.
I do know one thing——
I do know one thing— it was a price of 82/6 as against 75/-.
We have the liberty ships.
It is only beginning.
I will be back in a minute.
The Minister is a first-class showman.
He will not come back.
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