Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion
1:30 pm
Mr. Pádraic Fogarty:
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine restrictions did not come in on foot of the complaint we made. We made a complaint to the European Commission that nothing is being done. That complaint only went in very recently. We have, of course, been making general complaints about wildfires. If we believe these fires are being started by bits of broken glass, we are fooling ourselves. They are not being started by broken glass. They are being started deliberately. Whether it is by vandals or whoever, that is how they are being started. It may be cigarette butts but not bits of broken glass.
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