Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is there any joined-up thinking with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on all this? With all due respect to the witnesses, they do their job, and I understand that fully, but before they arrive, another crowd will have landed out at a farm and will have told the farmer to do X, Y and Z and that he cannot do X, Y and Z. He or she will have complied with that only for the delegates to come along and the person has to adhere to their set of guidelines. It is as if the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing, and it is causing major problems throughout the country. I am not saying it is the fault of the delegates. The problem is that they are the people with the money to pay farmers the single farm payment or whatever. These other people come and tell the farmer what he or she can and cannot do, run off to the hills and are never seen again. That is a problem and it has to be addressed because I see it happening day in, day out.