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

The national peatlands strategy has been discussed by the Peatlands Council for a number of years and, unfortunately, the TCCA decided to withdraw from the Peatlands Council after it had signed up to an agreement that it would not cut any more turf on the SACs.

That was a signed agreement back in June 2011-----

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