Philip Boucher Hayes

So where is it going to come from?

There is a body of work that has been done here to try and square all of these circles.

And there are things that government's critics say could be done to speed up delivery, but government haven't done to avoid losing votes or antagonising allies.

It's called the Land Use Review.

It was completed in early 2025, but it hasn't been seen since then.

And this absence of a national plan on how we use land is having real life consequences, they say, on farms all over the country.

Pat O'Toole is political editor of the Irish Farmers Journal.

He's been asking for a very long time when we might see this report.

Pat, good morning.

Why is it needed?

Cue our very first farm visit of the morning.

Over the course of the last year, I have visited one beef farm in County Kildare on and off several times.

It's next door neighbour to a proposed wind farm project of nine turbines, each of them 180 metres in height.

Locals mostly feel that renewable energy projects absolutely have to happen, but worry that this is not the right one in the right place.

The developers obviously feel that they are in the right place.

I first went to this farm last September.

Is that the problem here, that as soon as you put, you prioritise one use of land over another, you're going to be putting some people's noses out of joint?

play specifically classical music as opposed to talk radio or pop or hip-hop?

It was agitating them, wasn't it?

Michael Miley farms Angus Sucklers in Tillage on 240 hectares with his father, a few miles from Monastrevan.