Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

How are those in the service industry, the little shops, the filling stations or whatever, going to survive after the jobs are shut down? The other thing that I am amazed at is that no one here knows the definition of the boundaries of the places that are going to get assistance. It is amazing that no one here can define that in spite of the fact that the Government is bragging and blowing up here in the chambers every day that such a fund is available and no recognition is given, even in the recent budget, to the fact that the stations are closing down six or seven years sooner than they were supposed to because of the Bord Pleanála decision. All of this is a desperate reaction to the Greens winning a few extra seats in the council and European elections and the fact that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael want to be greener than the Greens. It is the people in the midlands who will be affected. I know that people from Kerry, including my own father-in-law, came up working in Bord na Móna back in the 1930s and 1940s. My own brother worked for Bord na Móna in later years. I know what the jobs mean to those people and to all the other people who work there. What will happen to the briquette operation and the moss peat? There was endless opportunity to continue that, as I understand it.