Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to make it clear that we badly need a meeting on that issue to be held rapidly. I thank the representatives of Bord na Móna. I met them a week ago and I spoke to Ms King. Mr. Breen referred to reducing the risk to adjoining farms. It is about eliminating risk. I understand rewetting. It has been done for 15 years near me and it is okay. I have one simple question. Is Bord na Móna prepared to sit down with the farming organisations and prepare a written agreement to give certainty that when the rewetting and all the other work has been done, the boundary drains or the drains between Bord na Móna property and farmers' land will be protected and maintained by Bord na Móna? Is it prepared to enter a written agreement regarding pumps that are saving land? Those are the only questions I have because they will solve everything fairly quickly.