Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will come in on that. A good piece of work has been done on the land use review, although it is not just about the land use review. There are three Department involved in this regard, namely, my Department, the Department of agriculture and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. The report was received on 2 May. Although there was some commentary publicly that this report had been sat on for three months, that is not true. It is being accessed. I met with the chair of the land use review, Geraldine Tallon, who did a good job. I had a detailed briefing with her the week before last. The Minister, Deputy Martin Heydon, and I will be working through that with the Minister, Deputy James Browne.

The Senator is right, however. The peat extraction we saw would shock anyone. We have to let that be dealt with, however. Some significant work has been done in the past five or six years with regard to bog restoration and bog rewetting. Bord na Móna has done incredible work in that regard. I have visited many of those restored bogs. A lot of significantly good work is happening in that regard.