Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank the Ministers of State, Deputies Aylward and Treacy, for the work they have done this evening. I commend them and the Department for the excellent work they have done in facing the crises that have befallen the agricultural sector in recent years. None of us has any doubts about the extent to which the whole sector has been affected by many vagaries recently.