Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

May I suggest that the Minister of State does not make statements in the Oireachtas that she cannot back up with actual facts and figures? If she states, in the context of a debate on horticultural peat, that we are a net exporter, it gives a particular impression whether it was intentional or not; people are open to their own views - that we are exporting tonnes, and perhaps hundreds of tonnes, of horticultural peat while Oireachtas Members are complaining on behalf of companies in their constituency that such peat is not available here, and that is not the case.