Eamon Scanlon (Fianna Fail)

A constituent who is a farmer contacted me by telephone yesterday. A car pulled up beside him last Friday as he was doing drainage work on some land he bought recently. A man got out and read him his rights. The man told my constituent that if he wished to remain silent, that was fine. The individual in question was from the Dúchas office and the lands had apparently been designated as a special area of conservation. The purchaser of the lands was not aware of this, nor was his solicitor.