Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It was very welcome news when the scheme was reopened a number of years ago because it is a very practical scheme, supporting the rural road network. The conditions were modified at that point and they have caused a great deal of difficulty for some people. Even with a cluster of houses on a road there is a requirement for the landowners and herd numbers to be recorded as part of the application. That is not always practical because in some rural communities the land might be let, somebody might be in a nursing home or the neighbours may not see eye to eye. There are umpteen different reasons it may not be possible to get everybody on that road as part of the application. That impedes the application; it blocks them altogether. Is there a way of opening that out again so that the communities living on those roads would be able to have access to that vital funding?

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