Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I recently visited several contentious bogs and I am willing to visit the bogs to which the Deputy referred in the near future if he can get the other people involved together, as well as any public representative who is interested in finding a solution. I am prepared to do this in the near future if he wishes to arrange such a meeting.

We do not have as many people on the ground as we would like and it is a significant problem that we only have a small number of national park and wildlife rangers for the whole country. They have other work to do also with regard to compliance with other EU directives, such as the birds directive. Their resources are stretched, but I will convey the message that not enough dialogue is taking place in the case of Mouds bog so that dialogue will take place. My offer stands to meet the people who want to discuss the matter with me in the next few weeks.

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