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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...be fighting to keep your land. Those are the facts and there is no point in waffling. If the nature restoration law that is being voted on goes through in Europe, and all our MEPs are backing it, peaty-type soil, which is in the witnesses' area, will be in trouble. There is no point in saying anything different. Second, how many Ministers have there been down through the years? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Seán Canney: ...up with nothing and we end up with stagnation. That is what we have in the callows, because we do not really and truly have someone who will take control of it. I challenged the ESB about all the peat it had dumped into the Shannon, and that was received with indignation, whereby they asked me how dare I say that. That happened a long time ago but the peat is in the river and has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Mr. Michael Silke: Yes, that is correct. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, in particular, Bord na Móna allowed an awful lot of peat into the river. Without question, Bord na Móna did, it is there and it can be clearly seen. I live between Banagher and Meelick and there are areas of the River Shannon where islands have accumulated. I caught salmon in those areas when I was a child...