Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Walsh mentioned the Straight A’s for AMENITY booklet, which is a fair question, perhaps, to add to our letter as well. This letter to the Department is getting longer by the minute, but in fairness some of the things Mr. Walsh touched on today were not responded to or highlighted within the Department's response. Obviously, they were not highlighted in Mr. Walsh's original petition. This is coming out in our discussion, which is helpful. It would be good to know when the booklet was actually produced, however. It does not reference section 12 of SI 155 of 2012, which Mr. Walsh mentioned. It would be useful if we could establish that. Mr. Walsh is right in saying that if the booklet were updated, if it has not been already, then that could do some of the work we are actually talking about and people would be informed about what they should and should not do. Ultimately, the vast majority of people want to comply. Mr. Walsh mentioned the product. I have had experience of this in the past while. The vast majority of people are looking for non-invasive chemicals to use. They do not want to do any harm. That is where we need to make sure the Department is trialling those. If we can get those responses from the Department in that correspondence, that will help and it might inform our discussion.