Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the proposal. I will flag that I want explained the next day how we ended up here. All I heard was, as the Chairman said, you would think it was coming back by return post. This thing was just going over to Europe for reasons related to state aid rules. Now it appears it is going over for approval of what type of soil and where. It is a complete strategy the people over there looking at this are coming back on, questioning and trying to determine. State aid rules are state aid rules. It is about how much money we can give a man to sow trees; it is not about telling him where he can or cannot sow. I want to know how we ended up here and how the whole strategy is up for review, not just the state aid rule end of it. We were told at all junctures that, like the Chairman said, it would be back by return post and was only going over to be rubber-stamped for state aid rules.