Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

They came to buy bog in this country. They cut their own away and plenty of them were trying to tell us what we could and could not do. They are quite entitled to buy bog wherever they want. I do not mind where they buy it. Nevertheless, they cut their own away first before they ever realised the value.

In the same country where we tell people that there are cuts of five or six hoppers for their own houses, we are telling them what they cannot do and that they are criminals. Meanwhile, Germany, England and several other countries, including the Netherlands, take different types of milled peat for sewage systems and so on around the country.