Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Construction inspections are increasing as the sector grows again. I am interested to hear Deputy Donnelly's proposal and my Department will liaise with him on it. On the issue of accidents on farms - if there are any farmers listening to me - one of the messages at the ploughing championships was about heights. Many fall from heights of 9 ft. or 10 ft., for example, when they go up onto a shed, fall through and get killed.

The other message is about reverse parking, which had to be explained to me. When farmers are leaving their tractors or machinery at night they should reverse park into the spot where they are going to leave it. That prevents situations where they come back out in the morning and do not see a child or older person who has followed them. That is the message from the HSA at the ploughing championships this week. There were myriad other messages but they were the two particular messages they wanted to get across this week.