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

I have a second question. On my way to Dublin, I was thinking about the likes of An Taisce. We have seen An Taisce object to quarries. We need quarries for building houses, be it in Dublin or other areas. The witnesses would know property in Dublin fairly well. We need it for building sheds for farmers. On the issue of water quality, people deserve water. An Taisce objected to Lough Talt and it had to go through the imperative reasons of overriding public interest, IROPI, process with 9,000 people being two years on a boil-water notice. It objects to forestry, objects to the peat harvesting, objects to turf cutting but the witnesses would not give an answer to Deputy Carthy earlier on whether they would rather see the mushroom industry collapse or keep getting the peat in from another country, which is totally off the wall in my opinion. One-off housing is being objected to. All of these objections go into parts of rural Ireland. What I am trying to get my head around is - and I do not want this word "sustainable" used because this word sustainable is constantly thrown out - in the witnesses' opinion, in the dairy sector how many cows will we have? In the witnesses' opinion, in the beef sector how many cattle will we have? What other types of farming will we do? Can the witnesses give me their opinions on GAEC 2?