Pippa Hackett (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The law is as it is and we should encourage everyone to comply with the law. Nobody should encourage anyone to not comply with the law. The law is there and people can become compliant if they engage. That is what we are always asking, that is, that they engage with the process. We want to help them engage with the process. The Government wants to help people to engage with the process. The Government cannot extract peat itself, so we need people to do that.

Those in the sector will watch this. They are aware of the situation. I met many of the growers at the end of last month and we had a very positive engagement. They want to be positive about this. The whole debate did not get caught up on peat supply and from what we understand there is no indication that there is a cliff edge in terms of peat supply at the moment. We are not getting those indications from the sector. I am not saying that will continue to be the case but there is currently no crisis of supply.

From what we understand, there is no cliff edge in terms of peat supply at the moment. We are not getting those indications from the sector. I am not saying that will continue to be the case but currently there is no crisis of supply in peat in the horticultural sector in Ireland. Nevertheless-----