Does the Senator have a question for the Leader?

Yes. Does the Leader agree that civility in debate from all sides is critical?

I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House. He was here recently here to debate Pillar 2 funding and he spoke in general terms about the requirement for farmers to refund overpayments of the single farm payment. He spoke in general terms about farmers having used the maps the Department had supplied. I would like the Minister to come and answer the following questions. Who is to blame for the overpayments? Second-----

The Senator can make those points during the debate.

-----will there be penalties as well as repayments? What is the average repayment? What will happen where the Department itself inspected the land on which such overpayments were given? Who is to be blamed for that? Will the farmers be responsible for that?

The Senator can make those points during the debate.

Will the repayments be retrospective? The Minister should come to the House and not just deal with the matter in a general way as he did last week-----

I call the Leader of the House.

-----but address the specific issue of overpayments and the many concerns farmers have.