Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----but if the Senator wants a straight answer, the answer would be "No".

With regard to the roadside scheme, I am sorry to quote the Roads Act, but I have to because as the Senator knows - this is a great bone of contention in this room when it comes to cutting hedgerows and everything else along the side of the road - it is a fact that, unfortunately, section 70 of the Roads Act 1993 states that the responsibility for what goes on on the side of the road is the landowner's. However, the Senator should look at the money that is being made available. People who have ash dieback have every sympathy in the world from me and the Department, but it is not just sympathy. We have put in money to match that. I cited in my opening statement the amount of money that was available for the ash dieback schemes.