Regarding a commitment in the programme for Government for a sustainable rural Ireland, the Taoiseach will be aware of the huge losses incurred by grain farmers this harvest season, particularly west of the Shannon and in the south west. Many farmers have lost their entire incomes and there does not appear to be any aid package forthcoming to help them. Will the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, bring forward an aid package to help them and try to secure European funding to that end?

A grant aided targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, is being developed for grain farmers. The Minister, Deputy Michael Creed, has secured credit at a low interest rate.

In respect of the taxation, the Minister for Finance put in a gap year for farmers-----

I asked about the aid package.

-----who experienced a year like this one where grain was impossible to take out of fields in many places in the country.