Mr. Tom Donnellan:

There has not been any specific calculation in that regard. Our intention is stop using peat. We recognise that it is not good practice to be in the peat business.

That is the statement we put out in the past few weeks and we are working on this transition. We could decide not to go far with biomass, or not to export the peat for the horticulture business but we have a big landbank and all the employees working directly and indirectly for Bord na Móna, approximately 4,000 today, would be homeless. We are trying to come up with the best balance. We are not trying to turn back the tide and say this is good, it is okay to continue to be a fossil fuel provider. We are saying we want to get out of it as quickly as we can, and we want to build a renewables and recyclable business. We want to move from brown to green. It is a question of how quickly we can get there. We have come up with an aggressive balance. We have been criticised for that in some quarters because it involves more than 400 employees losing their jobs. That is a conscientious decision we have to make. I do not dispute any of Deputy Ryan's points regarding impacts on the environment or anything like that.