Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The EPA report will form the basis for the European Commission if it decides to reduce the stocking rates on farms. If the contents of the red map are submitted, there is a big likelihood the stock rates will be reduced. All the organisations we have spoken to are critical of that said red map. They prefer the more detailed map 9. Why ignore that map when all those who know best, especially our farmers, believe map 9 is more informative and is more useful to the landowners? Why are we going with map 1 instead of map 9?