Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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That is the ambition. It is like the monitoring you have to do for the designated areas. Every four or five years, you have to get scientific stuff - is it poor, is it moderate, is it good? You then got a slap on the wrist from our good buddies in the European Court, to which you will be referred because you did not go in at favourable status. That is the way it works at the moment for anybody who has followed the habitats directive. What is favourable status in the context of a peat soil someone is farming?