Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have to look at the legislation that was passed more than a year ago. I am not sure if the appetite is there to do so. I have been a Member of the Oireachtas for 20 years. I know it is difficult to do so but we have review and strengthen the most recent legislation in this area. Perhaps the Minister and officials at the time thought we would be able to get through the quagmire we were in back then but that was not the case. The legislation has to be revisited and strengthened. We have more ecologists and so forth employed in the Department, yet there is still a crisis.