Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I call for a debate in the House on the madness that is going on with the importation of wood chippings from Brazil, peat from Latvia and anything else from any other part of the world that we feel like, rather than using our own peat and allowing farmers to cut down their own forestry to be used here. We need an urgent debate in this House. The green tail is wagging the dog and it will keep wagging until the tail falls off. What is happening is insane. We need a reasonable debate on this to try to effect a change to these stupid policies.

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