Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact the Minister issued a statement recently about approvals for TAMS. I note there have been delays with TAMS and I very much welcome the issue of approvals. It is important to get approvals under way as quickly as possible. I am particularly anxious those approvals would be issued where people have applied for accommodation in respect of animal welfare issues and the storage of slurry and manure. I welcome that, once again, the Minister is attaching a priority to those types of applications. It is important from several points of view, both from animal welfare and from an environmental point of view, that those types of projects be given priority.

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