Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I presume the delegates have tried to make the argument – it will not wash – that the decision is now going to be made on a potential reduction from 250 kg per hectare to 220 kg per hectare and that the restrictions or actions that have been taken in the past year are not going to be taken into consideration. In this regard, farmers who have invested in everything they were asked to invest in will never know whether they have had the desired effect, but they will still suffer. There is no point in telling them in 2024 that what they did in 2022 and 2023 actually did improve the water but that they are down to 220 kg per hectare and that the limit will never go back to 250 kg per hectare once it goes down. Do the delegates know the point I am making? It cannot be all science; there has to be an argument for logic here as well.