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

I will elaborate. We are dancing around here. We are trying to be careful from a legal perspective, etc. I want to put out in the open what is happening at the moment. Corporate entities are coming in and trying to buy out practices to control areas. They will dictate the pace and the whole lot. We might as well have all of this out in the open. The council is trying to dance around it. I know they are under certain legal restrictions. In certain rural parts of the country - I will not name them, although there are members here from some of them - farmers are being charged scandalous prices for the service they are getting. Are we going down a road that involves letting English corporates in to destroy the industry? Are we going to bring in legislation to nail this down in whatever way that is required?

Can the witnesses name the people who made the decision at the December 2017 meeting? How many people were at the meeting? Do they think that anyone had a conflict of interest?