Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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I compliment the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, on taking my part in relation to hedgecutting. I wish to inform Senator Warfield that I do not have a problem with the hedges inside ditches along the roads. I have a problem with hedges along the roads that obscure a person's view while driving or walking. I make no apology for calling for hedges in such circumstances to be cut all year round. As I said when I was a member of Kerry County Council, birds are not so foolish to build nests on the side of the road where a lorry could whisk off all of their feathers, blow their nests to smithereens and destroy their families.