Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I do not want to go down this road too much but I have looked at Germany and other places where a snail held up a fairly big factory so that is what Europe is doing to us but people do not seem to appreciate that. All I can say to Mr. White is that we will keep the pressure up. I suggest to the Chairman, and I presume the committee will back it, that we bring in representatives from the Department. We will try to get the overall figure for the witnesses. If they say that only 60 have been done out of thousands, it is a damning indictment of the Department when it comes to resolving the issue. All I can say is that with the consent of the Chairman and the committee, we will bring the Department to get to the nub of the issue. Representatives from the Department have been before us about 20 times already. I am sick of looking at them but we must persist.