Mr. Paul O'Brien:

I thank the Deputy. He was out of the room earlier. In the dairy belt from Athlone to Cork, the hedgerows are cut down to within an inch of their lives, to the stalk and root. The diggers break the stalk as they are doing that and the hedgerows are not recovering. I live in the same town as the Deputy in Galway. The hedgerows and fields are good in Galway but the wind coming in off the sea keeps the bees busy trying to fly in straight lines. I am talking about the dairy belt from Athlone to Cork.