Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Ó Cuív has touched on the issue I want to raise. Did the Department put on the EU jersey as opposed to putting on the green jersey? Mr. McKiernan said he got legal advice. Was any approach made to Europe? We got extensions before for spreading slurry under exceptional circumstances. Was such a request made given the circumstances that the farmers had not burnt the land themselves and that the fires were started maliciously by outsiders? Was the question even asked of Europe or did the Department just put on the EU jersey instead of putting on the green one?