Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

All right. We have to do something about the applications that have been in the system for two, three and up to seven years. I call on the Minister of State to examine the matter. I do not blame her. She has been in the job only three or four months and we will give her every chance in the world, but we are telling her how it is. It is very wrong to think what is happening to people who use wheelchairs, who want to cut their bit of timber and to improve their house by making it more accessible for the man who planted the timber 25 or 30 years ago. We need to look after those people and we will be in the House day after day fighting for them. What is happening is very wrong, as it is that people in the Department who are paid high wages have let this country go the way it has in respect of forestry.