Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is not for anybody to snigger or sneer at. Neither my brother nor I would be here if it was not for turf, as our grandmother went to the bog barefoot when people had nothing and she cut turf. Our father sold turf in our village of Kilgarvan with a horse and rail to make a couple of pounds to keep the house going. That is where we came from. We came from nowhere else. Nobody should listen to advisers - I do not care who they are - who believe they can introduce a ban on the cutting of turf.

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