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

I am sorry for interrupting Mr. Kierans. The future of Irish farming is at stake in the next week or two and he says it is slow for these people to do X, Y and Z. Someone could lose their livelihood because someone in some other country is slow or the people who collate the figures or make the decisions and are dressed up in suits are slow and it does not matter to them. Is that the way we should be operating? When we talk to Teagasc, which is doing research on wetlands, the figures are coming out totally different. We are using default figures for most of the areas we are reporting on because we have not done the research. We are given what I would call falsified figures because we are using by default what other countries said were the figures. Those are the figures we are given and farmers around Ireland are at the mercy of them at the moment. Is Mr. Kierans comfortable doing that?