Mr. Seamus Boland:

I am in a very personal space when I say this. The Deputy could be right but I remember being told the same thing when we started out on the road in terms of relocation bogs. I remember distinctly being told that there was no way anybody, especially Bord na Móna, would make bogs available. We persisted at the time and we got them. All I am saying is that we are putting this on the table. The question that must be answered is whether the mushroom and horticultural industries are in an emergency situation and whether we need to save them. If that is the case, then we have to declare the kind of national emergency you need to do so. If we do that and people refuse to make bogs available, we have to find out why. I am speaking off-report at this point but the question is whether we are determined to save the industry. I know that people within the Department are determined to do so and are working hard on the issue. Bord na Móna probably does not want to put it forward and the Deputy may even be right in his assessment. In my working life I have always put the ridiculous questions out there and if someone shoots them down, then fine.