Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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The report also recommends a number of options to secure supply of horticultural peat. However there was no considered role for the private sector in the supply of horticultural peat. Given the past experience these people have had and the companies operating in Ireland, why does the report more or less ignore that sector and does that not undermine the report itself when such a large-scale sector is left out of the report?