Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The farmers do not know where they stand. Look at the amount of penalties that have been incurred in these areas by families who need the money. Departmental inspectors are going around at present. In this case, the people who have investigated it for the second time were already on the case on the first occasion. That cannot be. There must be a clean sweep with new people, including an ecologist, to work with the different designations. One cannot have the same group of people looking at the same problem. We cannot have even one of the same people going back to examine it. In that case why not get new people to examine it and work with this ecologist? Most of his work was accepted in two of the applications. That guy is in Brussels at present. Why not work with him to solve this problem?

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