Mr. John Joe Fitzgerald:

The Deputy raised a good point there. I have seen it and I have been speaking to farmers from Donegal down to west Kerry. The older generation of farmers have given up going into the hills on bank holidays and weekends because of the serious issue of run-ins with people. They have been abused and shouted at. Those people stayed here in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s when the rest of us emigrated and they are now treated like dirt at this time of life. They are afraid to go and check their animals on bank holidays and at weekends. That is totally outrageous in this day and age.