Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

I will start with the last point because there is confusion. That is why the definitions are in the peatland strategy. People call it whatever they like, and that is fine, but when we must make a decision we should all call things the same name. The definitions I gave are in the peatland strategy. I will explain the biggest difference and perhaps the Deputy can then apply the definition afterwards. A cutaway has no vegetation left. It is a bare, brown field. Big horticulture companies such as Bord na Móna and Klasmann-Deilmann would have removed all the vegetation in long fields, with drains every 15 m to drain the site. It is just brown. It is cutaway because they come back to it every year over the full plain of the bog.

What we call cutover is all the bogs that have just been cut on the edges right down to the level the Deputy mentioned. One might or might not have reached the subsoil, but the vegetation in the middle is still there. In most of the bogs the Deputy spoke about, one can see the middle of the bog. It has vegetation on it. That is what we call a cutover, and that is the definition in the strategy. I understand that the Deputy might use-----