Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

The announcement made in November, for one reason or another, by one of the major State companies, the ESB, on receipt of planning permission, has had an effect on subsidiary industries. One of those was its main supplier, Bord na Móna. I am well aware of the normal interaction between unions and employers. I was referring only to what I saw on the day regarding Bord na Móna's presentation of how it was trying to adjust to this situation. I was not getting into the industrial relations aspect or how it was trying to create alternative industries and the kinds of numbers that could be involved in that process.