I find it very difficult to accept what the Minister is saying. Before his Government came into office those people were spending four days a week out in the fields. This new situation has come to the notice of the Wexford County Committee of Agriculture. Will the Minister guarantee that the £20 charge will not be applied to visits other than those involved with the farm modernisation scheme?

I can readily give that assurance. The assurance is that as far as the £20 fee for farm visits are concerned it will occur only in connection with the farm modernisation scheme. There will be no charge whatsoever for visits outside the scheme and I have been at pains to say that up and down the country.

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