Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna

1:30 pm

Photo of Feargal QuinnFeargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Quinn will know that the Quinns are generally recognised as being optimists but if he is coming to work on a Monday morning does he have a worry in the back of his mind that would make him say, "I hope this is not on my desk today"? In other words, what are his concerns? What could go wrong? Is there a particular aspect about which he is concerned, especially in regard to competition?

Mr. Quinn mentioned that Germany had an advantage in one particular aspect. Does Bord na Móna have competitors that it had not even thought of that will just appear behind the scenes? What are his concerns about what could happen on that basis?

To touch on the willow, is the willow a native Irish plant, and is there any environmental query about the biomass development of the willow tree and what Bord na Móna is doing in that regard?

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