Farmers and the haulage industry will welcome news of an exemption for hay and straw from controversial new rules on vehicle height.
The transportation of haulage of hay and straw will be exempt from height restrictions after Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar accepted a proposal brought forward by Kildare South TD Martin Heydon.
“I have considered the various issues involved, consulted with my colleague Minister Coveney, with Irish Rail and farming representative bodies and arising from this have asked my officials to draft regulations to allow for a very narrow exemption for the haulage of agricultural fodder, i.e. straw and hay only, from the height limits brought in by the 2008 regulations,” Minister Varadkar said in the Dáil on Tuesday.
(Source – Irish Farmers Journal – Patrick Donohoe – 18/02/2014)