Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The question I wish to ask is about flood alleviation. Obviously, the more bogs are drained, the more flooding there will be because water can be released more quickly and we know the damage that is doing. To reverse that, many of those bogs have the capacity to hold water and to raise it to ground level or it can fluctuate up or down around that. It would be very difficult to control. I have never walked across the bog in the winter because one part of it would be flooded and another would not. Is there potential for some flood control or flood alleviation in terms of maintaining those water tables?

Dr. Renou-Wilson also referred to cutaway and cutover bogs. She mentioned that cutaway was typically what happened with State companies, the large companies.