Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

Can you imagine that? Someone creates a path in your land and you are not paid for it.

That is wrong and, from what I know, when something is wrong, it cannot be right. We are for the greenway. A lot of people in south Kerry are looking for the greenway. Cahersiveen town is on its knees and a lot of other tourism along the way is on its knees. However, some other way will have to be found and this will have to be done by agreement.

I will give an example of what is happening. At present, the Garda is being used to threaten certain individual farmers. These are people who never saw a Garda car in their yards. They never contravened the law in any way in the world. Imagine now, this is what is happening when some of them are at the end of their days. A Garda car is going in after a judge has made an order. The gardaí are only doing their duty. That is their job. It is hurtful when I hear this. These are people who have never crossed the law or crossed the line. I am saying loud and clear that some other system by agreement will have to be developed to speak to the landowners. They own the land in the first place. They fought hard to keep it at one time. Maybe they have struggled to keep it. In many cases, people are still paying back what they owe on it. The system will have to be reviewed and looked at. The Taoiseach said something will have to be done. We are appealing to him as well to get out there and sort it out.