Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Domestic turf-cutting can continue in sites outside the reconfigured protected natural heritage area, NHA, network with no requirement for ministerial consent, subject to normal thresholds. We are trying to establish these thresholds. It is useful for enforcement but it is also useful for policy. The report on the turf required for a household will give us a general indication of what an individual household would require on an annual basis where domestic turf-cutting can continue.

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