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
Mr. Ger Breen:
No, the professional peat of 2,000 tonnes is not being moved to Athy. That, as I said, is earmarked for supply into the Coolnamona facility. The Kilberry facility manufactures products mainly for the Irish retail business, so there is peat of a non-professional grade being transported from our peatlands in Kildare to the Kilberry facility for supply into the Irish industry. Previously, the Kilberry facility used to supply products under the B&Q contract. However, that has stopped in recent months. There has been a very small volume of retail product supplied under the B&Q contract from Kilberry, but that is where we wanted to use spare bagging capacity at the Kilberry facility. That was mainly product that was non-peat based.
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