Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

I hope the Minister will see fit to arrange for a consultation meeting to be available to a farmer before such a letter is issued, as the detail tends to bamboozle the farmer who does not know the consequences of such reclassification. It is important that would happen. It may involve a minor cost to the State, but such a change involves a massive cost to landowners in terms of the land rights they lose under these draconian European Commission guidelines which are imposed on the country.