Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

This is a fairly straightforward amendment which seeks to change the number of days from 14 to five. If the Minister or owner of a farm animal, animal product, animal feed or other thing related to the farm animal being valued, on receipt of the report referred to in subsection (6), which is the valuation, is dissatisfied with the determination of the valuer on the first valuation, he or she should require a second valuation not later than five days after the valuation. In other words, we are trying to get the process under way quickly, rather than leaving it for two weeks.