Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna

1:30 pm

Mr. Mike Quinn:

As I stated earlier, we do not expect to make any redundancies and if there are, there will be fewer than ten. We find ourselves in the position where more people are retiring naturally than we need to leave the business. Consequently, even when the 216 people go, we will be obliged to hire somewhere between 20 and 50 people back into the business after retirement to get us to the right-sized number of employees for peat production in the future. As for people's terms and conditions, I really cannot say too much about that because it is one of the items that currently are under discussion at the Labour Relations Commission. That process is in play at present and, in fact, the next session will take place this week on Friday, 12 June.