Mr. Tom Donnellan:

As I said earlier, the view on Bord na Móna was that it was coming to an end and we needed to have a forum to decide how it was going to end. Nothing is further from the truth. Today, we have a number of forums to deal with what is happening under just transition.

In July we signed a just transition agreement, which outlines in detail how reskilling and redeployment will be catered for. Some pay incentives were provided in return for that. We clearly have a record on that.

A midlands forum was set up last year specifically to deal with the just transition. The midlands forum is composed of all the local councils, Deputies, the ESB, the training boards, the union representatives and us. The Minister has announced a just transition commissioner to co-ordinate. We do not see the need for a third forum along the lines of industrial relations when we believe from an industrial relations point of view, we have mechanisms in place that work.