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

There is another issue to be considered if the committee is going to bring in other representatives of Bord na Móna. Many farmers have been left high and dry in the context of willow at the moment. They do not know where they are going. They got into this in good faith. I ask that we get representatives in to deal with turf cutting, peat and willow because we need answers for farmers around the country and, as Deputy Guirke stated, for turf cutters, of whom there are probably 1,000 or 1,500.