Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I did not see any humour in it. What I did see was a commitment to meaningful consultation with communities at every level of the decision making process. In the case of Bantry, the tiniest of ads went into one newspaper, it did not mention the area involved and it did not mention that there would be mechanical harvesting. The public was absolutely unaware of that.

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