Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point is that it would be applied on a per farm basis. I know what Deputy Fitzmaurice is saying from a civil contractor's perspective but from the farmer's perspective, it not something that will happen very regularly. It will happen once. It will be applied to the farm and there will obviously have to be communication between the civil contractor and the farmer as to how much fertiliser can be spread on the land so they are within their means on that. As I have said, in terms of the overall point about this Bill, my focus is on how this will impact farmers on an annual and an ongoing basis.