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:
Obviously we must have a flexible workforce during bad weather periods. We have significant numbers of seasonal workers, between 500 and 600 currently and this workforce will continue to grow. One of the challenges the company had in 2012 when the peat harvest was poor was that it had such a high fixed labour element in the company. Through retirements and other initiatives, we will continue to provide for a variable workforce, which will allow for flexibility in the context of the weather.