Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Government introduce new legislation to counteract the High Court’s suppression of statutory instruments introduced earlier this year which had sought to allow the horticultural sector to harvest peat on foot of Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, licences? If such legislation is not brought forward, there will be no harvesting come March and 4,000 more jobs associated with the harvesting of horticultural peat in particular will be lost.

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