Mr. Kieran Kehoe:

As I said earlier, the responsibility for the maintenance of hedgerows and trees is the landowner's. We do not have the capacity or the resources to do that. The ESB mentioned the lines. I will use the opportunity to address an issue that was asked about and come back to something I did not answer for one of the Senators, that being, outsourcing. What I mean by that is exactly what the Deputy mentioned. We engage with the agricultural contractors association because they have large machines with the capability to address and open up roads. We do not have that standard of machinery. We do not have to, because these people have. We have now got relations with them. We deploy them in those areas of north Kerry, Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. I contacted the national representatives and went to the local representatives to get the machinery. They have them, they are trained, and they are skilled in their use. We have those arrangements. It is similar with the forestry contractors for large-scale tree removal. That is the outsourcing we have talked about. It is nothing to do with our own-----