Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Yes.

That €1 million is amazing, given that several hundred bog owners sold their bogs to the Department in the past four years and did not receive a penny. I do not know where the €1 million came from or to whom it was given. Whatever flexibility is in the system should be used to go back and discuss it further. I have no doubt that there is a way out of it but it is not through the steamrolling done by the Government last week.

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