Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I may be wrong and I do not have a trade union official sitting beside me to advise me. My information is that the agreement that was signed in June was broken by Bord na Móna when it laid off 150 workers in Mount Dillon. That was not part of the collective agreement that was signed. Once they were laid off, Bord na Móna was immediately into a disputatious situation.

In the wider picture, I believe Mr. Donnellan would acknowledge, as everybody else in the country does, that the just transition challenge for Bord na Móna is the litmus test for future just transition in the country. Bord na Móna would not want to be used as a forum to manage just transition for the future. I ask Mr. Donnellan to explain to me why not when his company is the litmus test for that.