Mr. James Doyle:

Basically, that is what I am saying, that the dialogue should take place before the event rather than after. Most of the time, as I explained about the sheep, there was not enough consultation and local knowledge taken on board. As Deputy Stanley rightly pointed out, somebody who is remote from the problem, makes a decision which is an academic approach to a situation where there are practical issues that have to be taken into account. This is the bottom up approach. If we had consultation and that type of forum, when significant decisions are being taken about sterilising land or whatever, whereby people could be consulted and invited to make an input which is reasonable and understandable then we could address many of those problems without any cost to the Exchequer; in fact we might spare the Exchequer money.