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

I have seen it done in certain areas. I know the witnesses' counties very well. There is a concern where there is a house and a forest on either side of it. God forbid if a fire ever broke out, but there is a huge risk. There is no point in saying there is not.

There is a situation in Leitrim where some people - and it is hard to blame them in some cases - were farming fairly marginal land in places. We might not like it in Roscommon, Galway or Meath, but some of the farmers in Leitrim planted their own land and are renting land up the country. Would that be fair to say?