Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator O'Toole's comments relating to the bogs of Westmeath and Longford. It took millions of years to create them and mere hours to destroy them. This is not the first time this has happened. In my own locality people lost their entire crop of turf to bog fires and immeasurable harm has been done to wildlife so people should be very careful. This seems to have happened often in the past but I cannot say what should be done about it.

On the role of the Christian Brothers in Irish education, I am proud to be a past pupil of the Christian Brothers school in Mullingar. We are talking about the rule, not the exception, and I have fond memories of the Christian Brothers there and around the country.