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

What I am making very clear is that there comes a stage to make a decision on whether a bog is restorable or not, regardless of whether it is designated. A lot of those bogs are degraded, and they will never be restorable. We were better off getting a bit of milled peat off them and making sure that we saved the jobs in those areas and introducing whatever legislation was required to make sure of that rather than seeing boats coming in to ports in this country full of peat from other EU countries that do not appear to have to follow the same regulations or court judgments.