Mr. Liam Broderick:

These are the questions we are asking about the scheme. I cannot say that it lacks clarity. It has just been announced so we do not know all the details. We, the Save Our Shannon Organisation, were not necessarily involved in the negotiations with Department officials as to how the scheme would be put together. As Mr. Ryan pointed out, it is very simple to work out what land belongs to farmers right down beside the Shannon. There are maps and all sorts of ways of working that out. The committee members, as politicians, are the people who need to ask questions of the Department officials who are going to put together the bones of this particular scheme.