Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna

Dr. John MacNamara:

First, I am not expressly aware of that particular case. I am aware of other cases like that. It is important to point out that we have worked with individual growers even though the contract - I do not want to be too legalistic here as there is a lot of that going around today - would have been simply an offtake agreement with a price that was indexed over time. I am aware that there have been issues with getting contractors to areas. Let us be frank, Edenderry would not have been the obvious destination for a willow crop. I am aware that colleagues in the biomass procurement side of the house have specifically worked with contractors to get them on to those farms. I do not know if it is the same one but certainly in the west of the country where, as I said, it would not necessarily be the most-----

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