Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The hill committee whose members met the Minister in Dublin a few weeks ago raised 12 points, and I am pleased to see that he is moving in the right direction. Will the Minister continue to discuss the details of the progress he is making with the hill committee, which consists of experts in the field? If the Minister informed Brussels that he had to put together these proposals on foot of an unwillingness among farmers to graze the hills, will he correct this? As the Minister knows, the Department could not identify any under-grazed areas on hills when asked for the information in a parliamentary question and in committee meetings. All of this is based on a false premise, and it is important that this be corrected in Brussels in the same way that I had the Ceann Comhairle correct it in the Dáil. How can Brussels make the right decision on an incorrect premise? While this process continues, will the Minister or his officials meet the hill committee regularly?

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