'Foot-dragging' by NRA criticised

THE chairmen of 30 IFA road groups, representing almost 3,000 farmers and property owners losing land through the compulsory acquisitions process met in the Irish Farm Centre, to consider new strategies to ensure fair treatment by local authorities and the National Roads Authority and that full compensation is paid for land.

president John Dillon said top of the agenda is the unacceptable delays and unnecessary anxiety being caused through delays and foot-dragging by the NRA and local authorities in reaching the "dealing-point" and agreeing landowner compensation claims.

He said the State is obliged to fully compensate farmers for land taken for roads.