Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like to supplement what Deputy Brassil has said. The National Parks and Wildlife Service has been referred to on a number of occasions here today. Obviously it had a budget in place in 2007 outside of the Department of Agriculture and Food. Perhaps there is another door which we should be knocking on for these people behind us. If the service did not fulfil its commitments in 2007, the committee should definitely correspond with it, but we should have a representative of the NPWS before the committee because it put in place the designations and it has put in place the restrictions.

Chairman, we should correspond with them. I think we should have a representative from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht come before the committee. They are putting resignations in place. They have put the restrictions in place. There could be an onus on the Department to put money in place as well for these 4,000 farmers.

I support the point Deputy Brassil made. There have been a few kicks to touch to the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which is under the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. We should invite a representative from that Department to advise on their responsibility to compensate farmers for the designations that have been put in place.