Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. John Neenan:

I did a survey previously and there are 22 or 23 bogs that we can say with certainty are not hydrologically linked with other bogs. There are other cases in which there are small areas on one side of the road and a large bog on the other. They have to be treated separately. There are also cases in which, for example, Klasmann-Deilmann has a small bog of 10 ha that is included with a large bog 2 miles away. They need to be completely separated. It would work then.