Mr. Geoffrey Meagher:

I take the Deputy's point on this but, to be fair, Bord na Móna needs to do this in an orderly way. We have a duty of care to our 2,100 employees, 1,100 of whom are in the peat business. The company is progressing towards renewables and will continue that. We obviously have contracts with the ESB and others which we need to honour and we cannot walk away from them. The progression to renewables might not be at the speed Deputy Eamon Ryan would like. However, it is doing it in a way that is fair to all parties involved of which there are many.