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

It is not that it is costing Revenue money as such. Someone in the circle to which I refer paid the money. My opinion is that the person who made the meal bin was paid the price plus the VAT by the farmer. VAT details are sent in every two months. Whatever the person paid out in VAT other than that, he or she put one against the other and the farmer went to claim it back. I would encourage the officials to go out to a farm where there are mats and meal bins - the 3-tonne ones. It is possible to carry a small meal bin around on a front-loader. Small farms rely on them. They do not use the large bins. What we have to try to do in the agriculture sector is keep everyone with us.

If there is one outcome from today, it should be that the officials make a decision shortly. There is a lull in the industry at present because people do not know what is happening. That is my final ask.