Question No. 3.

If, as the Taoiseach has said, farmers are getting more than £1 million per day, is there any proposal to change the present system of budgetary estimates?

When did I say that the farmers were getting more than £1 million per day? Perhaps that is the case but in what respect am I supposed to have said it?

It was part of a statement attributed to the Taoiseach a few months ago. He was referring to benefits from the EEC in general.

It is an underestimate, anyway.

If people attribute statements to me I should like them to be able to tell me when and where I made the statements.

Or where there were lapses of memory.

The Taoiseach is creating a false impression.

These snide little remarks will not get Deputies Keating or Mitchell anywhere. I would remind them that after that incident they remember we succeeded in winning 84 seats. I intend to be honest with the people as I always have been. The kind of behaviour in which those two Deputies are indulging will be the cause of keeping them on the other side of the House.

(Cavan-Monaghan): The people will remember how the seats were won and the promises on which they were won.

I assure anybody who tries in an underhanded way to attack me or to attack anybody else that the attack will be met.