Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Common sense must prevail at all times. One shocking issue that was touched on earlier cannot be ignored in this debate. I am trying to be as specific as I can. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, should be in the Chamber. He should be tied in here for a while to make him listen to some of the contributions. The shocking issue was that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, failed to sign the derogation allowing farmers to burn scrub on 1 January. He did not do it on the grounds of protecting the environment. It is going to backfire enormously. It is turning every man, woman and child in rural Ireland-----

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