Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The clerk is pulling me up, and rightly so. My last point is about how we can empower farmers to get the information. I made the point last week and will probably make it again next week that, when I get my milk collected on a dairy round on a Tuesday, I will have a test on Thursday. I will know the water quality and the quality of my product exactly. Information from the EPA's testing regime does not come quickly. The EPA will publish a report next June for the year before. Do we need to empower farmers with that information? I have used the catchment data for the farm. It is awkward but you can do it if you have to. It is not very user-friendly. That is the terminology I would use. It is harder to get information from the EPA within, say, 48 hours. Is that a flaw?