Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Will decisions be based on charts that are on the office walls of the Department rather than the actual reality on the ground for farmers? There are real concerns that the Department may overshoot the mark. We heard earlier that sectors need to be assisted to make that transition. We hear complaints that the Department's ambitions trumps what can be achieved, and that comes back to the 8,000 ha target. Some of the figures that are being thrown out there are not achievable, and Deputies Carthy and Fitzmaurice raised these issues earlier. Is it a case that even the sector and the stakeholders involved know that the target figures being thrown out there will not be achieved?