All the farm organisations and agri contractors met the RSA last Wednesday expecting to be consulted for their views on the tractor NCT.

Instead, they were shocked to be told regulations had already been signed into law by Minister Shane Ross. The Dublin-based minister had quietly signed the Statutory Instrument on Thursday 21 September – when we were at the Ploughing.

Worse, a week after the Ploughing the RSA actually met the farm and contractor bodies – but didn’t inform them the new regulation had already been signed into law.

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