Mr. Karol Kissane:

I understand what the Deputy Canney said. It is an issue I highlight to farmers when I talk to them, and what they mention these days is not so much wind energy. What I get across my desk is probably more along the lines of solar and even the hope of anaerobic digestion. Farmers should be conscious of signing up to deals whereby somebody arrives into their area and is, for want of a better word, a developer trying to put a large land bank together. The question has to be asked: who is that to benefit? Is it to benefit the farmer, the locality or the person putting the land bank together? From that point of view - and this refers back to what I said earlier in reply to Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - we hope we will be able to engage with the Government and the various Departments to put policy in place to make sure that anything that develops as we move forward - and I know that solar is developing at a good rate at the moment and that AD may come - is farmer-centric and community-centric and there for the good of all society in order that if we are moving towards more renewables on land, the way in which it is worked is for the benefit of all and not just for the benefit of the few.