Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I come back to the question of the damage threshold. The recommendation is for it to be set at 1.5 mm. Given there was no analysis or there is no information on the existing DCB applications, how did the witnesses arrive at the 1.5 mm figure? Dare I mention whether they could give the foundation of the process in determining that figure? It is very important. The experience we have had in County Mayo is that the so-called damage threshold was exclusionary more than anything else. It is why I am so concerned about this and I want to understand how the figure and recommendation was arrived at.