Tom Barry (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I apologise. With regard to schemes, I would not be over-zealous in trying to cut all of the staff in the Department because things will not work without staff. We must be careful that we do not try to remove all of the staff in the Department. There are some very good staff in the Department. We must reach a balance and savings must be achieved in some sort of shared fashion. We want agriculture to work and we will not be cutting forever. Things will build up again and it may not be in our best interest to remove some of the skilled people.

I would like to see more efficiencies in inspections. It makes no sense having a number of different agencies inspecting.