Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like clarification on a couple of points. Mr. O'Connor stated that there was a derogation on creosote. The treatment of timber with creosote will have changed a great deal since the derogation's introduction. As youngsters, we were sent out to paint with creosote. When you buy a creosote stake now, it has been pressurised and industrially applied. Would this not have helped to get a further derogation in respect of fencing?

If the ESB told me tomorrow morning that it had to put a pole in my field, it could put a creosote pole in the ground closer to a water course than I could put down fencing posts for the next seven years. Is that what Mr. O'Connor is saying? This would make for an added complication. I do not know about telegraph poles, but if someone who is supplying ESB or whatever is building a new plant for fencing posts, he or she is going to have to keep a creosote plant active for seven years as well. I did not do my homework well enough, as I did not realise that the derogation would continue for another seven years for the pole industry.

There is Tanasote, but what did Mr. O'Connor say the second potential new product was?