Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tom Donnellan:

We have approximately 1,600 employees, of whom 400 are seasonal and half are in non-peat related businesses, so they are currently not affected by anything to do with peat. Approximately 400 are affected by the closure of the two power stations. We are redeploying 210 of those to rehabilitation and some to other new businesses. We have opened a voluntary redundancy scheme in which we are targeting between 150 and 180. If we do not get that many, we will redeploy the rest, but we are oversubscribed for that.