Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is the practical problem of farmers feeding their animals every day. There is another problem which has not been spoken about at the committee - the psychological pressure farmers are under. One action the Minister can take today is to instruct that all farm and forestry inspections temporarily cease until such time as the crisis is over. I am not suggesting farmers would do anything wrong. Like a hole in the head, what a farmer needs least is a farm inspection. If the Minister was to state today that, to assist farmers with the psychological trauma they are going through, he was instructing his officials the length and breadth of the country to temporarily stop farm inspections until the crisis was over, it would be a positive measure.

I would be very grateful if he could respond.