Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude on this point. As I said at our meeting with the local area education and training board and others last week, I believe we should be honest with people. By the middle of the next decade we will face fines of several hundred million euro a year as a result of changes in legislation with regard to how we account for peat. The likelihood of any form of horticultural peat extraction continuing by the middle of the next decade is close to zero. We should be honest with workers and communities in that regard.