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

Mr. Mike Quinn:

We look constantly at automation. In the context of peat, I was fortunate to attend a conference in Brussels with the European Peat Society, where Bord na Móna's peat harvesting process was recognised as leader of its class. We have made significant productivity improvements over the past number of years, but there are always opportunities to do better. On whether there will be largescale automation in that business, that is highly unlikely. That said, if we look at the briquette factories and some of our other infrastructure, we will go for best in class technology where we can.

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