Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Has the Department looked at this legally or has it just accepted it as being something that is not possible? As already stated, people's jobs and livelihoods are at risk. Everybody's main priority should be the people who have done their jobs so well down through the years. It is not just that they turned up on the doorstep all of a sudden and were the cause of a problem. What we have here is going to cause extra costs to the farmer and a serious headache for many people. I ask that the Department perhaps go back and look at this again, and maybe talk to the legal experts about what happens on farms in reality in order to get the picture on the ground as far as farmers are concerned.