Mr. Tommy Williamson:

There is such a variety of stakes, in size and everything. In my yard, I have an abundance of certain sized stakes but I do not have small stakes that are the biggest seller. From day to day, they come in. Now the people producing them ask do I need them. One wonders will they be creosoted on time and will they come in on time.

The thing about it, to start with, is that any importer of stakes or people selling stakes received no notification from the Government whatsoever. We knew nothing about it only what came out in the Irish Farmers' Journal. That is when we knew first that there would be a ban on creosote stakes.

Usually, when we would order stakes, we would be a year ahead. We would be giving orders for what we are to supply this summer for next year and to ban the stakes in such a short period of time in the middle of a fencing season is just not on.