Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The EPA did a report approximately 18 months ago and the report found that the emissions associated with peaty soils was much larger than had been previously understood. The EPA are obviously a bona fide organisation that has come back and said that they are a source of emissions to the tune of, I think, 5 or 6 megatonnes, if I am correct. We will go back and look at the research but we have to be very careful when we say something that is very contrary to what we understood up to this point.