Mr. Pat Dunne:

I spoke to a hedge cutting contractor recently who informed me that he did not have time in the period available to cut all of the hedges that he had been asked to cut. He said he would need to buy another tractor and hedge cutter at an enormous cost. Last week I saw the same man on the road at midnight cutting hedges. While he had warning beacons and so forth in place, this brings up health and safety issues, as well as questions about safe practice. He has to do that work because he cuts at every opportunity he gets. If the period was extended when daylight hours were longer, he would not have to cut at such hours.