Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Does Mr. Fogarty believe the amount of designation is good? Is it 80% west of Lough Corrib? It is a burden on farmers' land, and we have letters to prove they cannot get money from a bank to allow the next generation to continue. Does he think it is a good idea that those farmers are being left high and dry, and the burden of the designation on them, whereby they cannot farm their land to its potential, means they are now left with nothing in the line of extra compensation? There is a major problem. This is why many farmers are right to tell the State something - I will not say the word here.