Mr. Barry Delany:

We have been clear from the start that we fully acknowledge the issue at hand for the sector. We work closely with them. We have a role in their ongoing development. We have been working fully with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We have been working closely on a daily basis with our colleagues in the two other Departments. The Deputy heard today about a short-term approach. He referred to the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Hackett, who has been clear on this as well. The immediate solution is to focus on small-scale extraction for the domestic commercial horticulture sector in the transition towards peat free. In the context of the larger-scale aspects, there could be a medium-term approach. We have come back to immediacy, a matter to which Mr. Lucas referred earlier. In the focus on small-scale extraction, we will find the solution.