Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister comes in here with what sounds like a definite figure of 37% gone while RPS tells us that the original figures were wrong and data from 1994 was sparse. If the Minister does not know what was there originally, how can he tell how much has been lost? He has to deal with this. He keeps talking about damage done by turf cutters. Will he please explain why my bog has grown by 120%, why Michael Fitzmaurice’s bog is the best performing bog in the whole country when it comes to active raised bog, ARB, and why the bogs for which the Minister is responsible, where no turf is cut, are dying, although he continues to say turf cutting is doing damage?

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