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

To inform Dr. MacNamara, I can send him a video of a field. In fairness the contractor - I am a contractor though I do not have the gear for that - I would not go into the field if I got €1,000 an acre because all he was doing was getting stuck and towing a valuable machine around the place. They have given a letter to that farmer that they are never coming back to do that again because they are losing money and all they are doing is destroying the field.

What I am saying is an elderly person should be advised. The soil should be looked at. If I am ploughing a field, I look at the field and see is it fit for harvesting in the back end or whatever. If that advice was given, is Bord na Móna willing to sit down when it is not working out? I do not want to make a big deal about it. It costs to put that field back into a normal bit of ground again. There is gear somewhere in the North that does that.

I have the figures of what it made over the years. It is embarrassing. I would not like to show them to anyone because people were always on about willow and the environment.

A mistake has been made. Is Bord na Móna willing to sit down with the likes of those people and work something out with them to help them to get back to normality?