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

We talk about the bees. They are very important. As part of GLAS farmers had to put out sand in a field and leave it in the corner. Maybe farmers are arriving at the wrong conclusion but I have heard farmers say that if you put it on a field and there was a ditch beside it, while bees increased around it, some went into the ditch and other wildlife like badgers were coming along. Would that be a factor?