Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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I would appreciate if the Minister would do that. I know there is a review of ACRES. I think it will find the clear problems where they exist. From the very outset, when people measured the plots, set them out and all of that, they had to immediately upload the information to a portal. They often had to travel a couple of miles down the road to get broadband coverage to do that. There are issues like that where an element of common sense needs to be applied, and that seems to be vacant in this context.

There is one other thing I want to mention to the Minister, and it is appropriate given there is a protest going on outside the gates of this building today by several of the farm organisations concerning the Mercosur trade deal, something that has been tumbling along for years. I know the Minister attended the event last week, as I did, with the IFA at the Curragh racecourse. I note that the Taoiseach, when he spoke about Mercosur-----