Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will and we will follow up on that.

On Bord na Móna, the organisation has clearly set out its views. Bord na Móna has more or less stated every time we have asked them about managing rivers, tributaries and drains going forward that it will do nothing with them so in all likelihood it is going to do nothing about the silt in the River Shannon either. Bord na Móna is going to rewet all of its boglands. Bord na Móna has said it has done its mapping and visualisation so can show that it is not going to cause further flooding. Our guests are living with the experience on an annual and monthly basis; am I correct to say that Bord na Móna should not be left off the hook in the manner in which that is happening, and are basically abandoning many of these drains and tributaries that it created or at least expanded to facilitate the boglands?

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