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

When Deputy Carthy was on about Bord na Móna walking off the pitch, Mr. Nugent said it did not do so. I would say it ran off the pitch. Every one of us have met Bord na Móna before and there was supposed to be this just transition to 2030. We were looking at a lovely book on it and then we got word about that High Court case. There was an opportunity for Bord na Móna to keep going if it wanted to but it was because of the threat of an injunction that it would not go any further. If I stopped at every threat I got in life then I would do nothing. Bord na Móna knew funding was coming to it for all the different things it is doing now so I do not accept that excuse.

Was it the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, under the former Minister, Deputy Bruton, that put together the legislation that got beaten in the High Court?