Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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One of the things that has arisen and that has landed in my office is the situation where someone has received a felling licence but they cannot get a road opening licence, and even though they have a right of way to the land, they are being refused the road opening licence. They invested in this 20 to 25 years ago - it was a pension fund - but they now find they are landlocked. There has been a change in policy in quite a number of areas and as a result, because of the uncertainty created, people are moving away from investing in this area. How can the Department set out a policy now that it knows will be implemented in 20 years' time? This is exactly what has happened in this case. Something that was in place 25 years ago has now been totally changed.