Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)

I welcome all the farm organisations and thank them for attending. This matter is one of the key priorities for me with respect to the work programme. That is because I recently attended, with some of the witnesses, a public meeting in Roundfort in south Mayo. Following the meeting, I walked the fields belonging to some farmers who had been terrorised by what was happening. This is happening in south and north Mayo. It is important that this committee recognise that, in pockets of the country, a huge part of this problem is down to illegal hare coursing, where groups of people are travelling-----