Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We also have Ordnance Survey Ireland, OSI, and from my first year geography class I know how to take out a piece of thread and measure a distance. I do not need Google Maps. What is OSI doing if we are not using it as our benchmark? God knows one can Google anything and get any answer one wants. I suggest that it is poor practice to depend on Google Maps as the benchmark of the distance from A to B as a reason to refuse somebody a grant, when the practical reality is different on the ground. I do not believe that a supervisor is getting into a car and driving from Sean Fleming's door to Marc MacSharry's door and saying, "That is the distance"