Mr. Vincent Roddy:

I will make a few general comments. I am appreciate the comments that have been made by members. Deputy Harkin mentioned the 70% but she also said there have been cases where there has been a redraft and obviously we hope for that. Most of the other points have been covered so I am not going to stress them.

I have an observation on the back of a point Mr. Punch made. It relates to what Deputy Nolan said about NGOs. With Article 16 on access to justice we are creating the ultimate crank's charter and that is a real problem. Deputy Nolan is right when she says that they have unbelievable funding from the State. As Mr. Punch said, farming groups - not just us, but also community groups - are left bereft of funding. I am conscious as well of the McKenna judgment in the High Court around the divorce referendum, which called for equality of funding. We need to make two decisions. This committee does not have the power, unfortunately. We need to take away the funding from the NGOs, as suggested by Deputy Nolan, or we need to fund community groups and representative organisations equally. We must have fairness and we are not getting it at the moment. I will leave it at that.