Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday, I met Teagasc people at the dairy day who told me openly that they did not understand the maps. We were looking through the report and I asked one of them if he could explain it to me. He said he could not. He had spent the last week looking at it. There is an opportunity, maybe not in this forum but at some forum in the next two or three days, to get real clarification out there. I realise that Mr. Massey did a job in Timoleague last week and spoke in Moorepark yesterday, but the clarity as to what is in this 28-page document is just not good enough. The farming community are scratching their heads. I was walking across the plinth today. I got three different telephone calls before I could get to it from people wanting to know about the map, where it was, where they were on it and what all red means in the map. This is basic stuff. We need to get out in front. It has been a week now since the report was published. The farming community need to have that information, and I appeal to the Department in particular.