Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I appreciate the Minister has had ongoing meetings with the personnel from Teagasc, especially in her constituency regarding pigs and poultry. Some issues, such as the technicality of transferring slurry and manure of a definite value from one farm to another, need not be significant and could be solved, but it is now tied up in red tape. An elderly farmer who is not fully utilising his land could utilise this valuable asset but instead he is required to sow bags of imported fertiliser. Can an effort be made to remove some of that red tape? A farmer must have a C2 before he can accept manure from a pig farmer. If we were sensible we could get around many problems without major expense.

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