Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There was an expectation that there was a scheme available and that wind turbines and forestry were generally permitted. That changed and has undermined the whole thing, leaving all bar 378 of the 3,800 farmers with no compensation. It has curtailed their ability to farm the land to make a living. The only thing they have going for them is whatever basic single farm payment entitlements they had built up prior to that.