Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Peat Briquette Production: Bord na Móna

10:15 am

Mr. Mike Quinn:

Yes, the Deputy is correct. Government policy in the UK in the past three to four years has been to move to a peat-free product by 2020. That has been unsuccessful. Now the policy is for a voluntary exit from the use of peat. None of our main customers has exited from peat and there is no drive from government policy to do that. In fact, some of the peat-free products to replace ours have failed miserably. Growers want peat. Until the government convinces the growers, there will be no exit from peat. Currently, there is not a viable commercial alternative to peat.

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