Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but this falls under the habitats directive. While we might not like the side of it that is looked at, it seems to put the turlough and the SAC before people. However, under the legislation and under the habitats directive there is emergency legislation to put a solution in place where a site of community of importance or an SAC is being damaged to basically move water, or whatever the problem is, in any part of the country until a long-term solution is found. Those are the facts. If the Minister of State needs help from us we are here to work with him. We are not against it. We are here to work with him on whatever needs to be done, because we do not have until next winter and the piece that has to be done to finish this off is going to take a while and we need to get it done. The Attorney General needs to get into gear and the Taoiseach needs to get talking to him because it is the Government that appoints the Attorney General.

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