Gerard Murphy (Cork North West, Fine Gael)

I wish to share time with Deputies Hayes and Naughten.

I listened with interest to my constituency colleague, Deputy Michael Moynihan, and I wondered for a while during his contribution whether we were both living in the same constituency. He barely mentioned the nitrates directive but that may have been in deference to our other constituency colleague, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, who is Minister of State in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, which is the Department that caused the problem in the first place.

See this speech in context