Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which animal welfare requirements continue to be met with particular reference to the extent to which his Department and the relevant local authorities have joined in their efforts to ensure that farmers who are required to undertake expensive development costs in the course of meeting the animal welfare criteria laid down in the pig and poultry sectors, are treated in a reasonable manner in respect of compliance with approval in respect of buildings that are in accord with plans to the nearest square metre and that local authorities are not expected to issue confirmation to this effect other than in the normal way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21513/13]

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