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:
Bord na Móna is aware of the challenge that is faced by the growers in Ireland. We entered into this arrangement with ICL because we want to provide a period of time to enable the Irish customers to transition. As I said previously, with the small amount of Irish Bord na Móna peat being made available, along with the facilities at Coolnamona and other ingredients that ICL will put into these growing media ready-made composts, there will be a product available to Irish growers to enable to transition away from 100% peat-based products to non-peat-based products over a period of time. That opportunity will now exist.
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