Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State has set out his position, and I respect that. He has a job to do, as do I. I will take away one thing. I am not asking the Minister of State to reply to me. I have listened to what he has said and he has clearly set out his case. My takeaway from that is the Minister of State will take this request to the officials and Minister tomorrow, and that is fair enough. One way or the other, I ask that they let us know the position tomorrow because we now need to prepare our debate and move on. I know where the Minister of State is coming from, as well as his mandate and the constraints on him.

I ask the officials to come back to tomorrow at some stage and indicate the position. I do not foresee that there will be a difficulty. There are many ways of getting this information. If the information has gone to farmers and everyone is discussing it, I do not know why the people writing the legislation do not have that information. At least the Minister of State will, kindly, take my request away. All I ask for in return is confirmation one way or the other for Members on the position regarding that request.