Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Year after year, there are fodder crises. The country is not able to provide enough fodder for the farming industry. Anybody who stands up and tells farmers that this Bill is a panacea or will solve the problems they face is involved in deceit. This is not going to stack up to a hill of beans in respect of the issues facing farmers. There is a false dichotomy here as well. We have heard again and again from the Minister and some Opposition Deputies that this is about road safety. There is nobody in this Dáil or this country who is saying not to cut a verge and a hedge back when they are dangerous. Everybody agrees with doing that. All we are saying is to cut the dangerous ones back and leave the rest of them there. That is why we have proposed these amendments. Anybody who stands up here and talks about children on buses and people in new cars is talking tommyrot.

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