Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but in respect of many of the sites about which we are talking, if open dialogue has failed, at least with a CPO, the person who is losing the land would get money for what he or she is selling and the CPO would mean that there would be a balance. An awful lot of landholders are afraid of insurance if they mention that there is a national monument on their land to which the public wants access. The problem seems to be landowners' liability so they could come to an arrangement whereby they could either sell the land to the Department, which would take over the land, or a CPO could be sued to acquire the land. We could then get our people to our national monuments and, at the same time, protect farmers and landowners and take them out of the insurance loop.