Mr. Jack Nolan:

It currently applies solely to intensively stocked farms, which are over 170 kg/ha/year. That equates to approximately 11,500 farms and they are mainly dairy farms. Many of those would be fenced for biosecurity anyway, I imagine. There is no proposal or suggestion that anybody on designated land would have to fence the watercourse for the exact reasons mentioned by the Deputy, mainly that planning permission would be required. In the past some of those farmers had problems putting up fencing because they had to go to court and so on. That is accepted and acknowledged.