Eugene Murphy (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the statement on behalf of the Minister. We acknowledge the ESB is still involved in negotiations, although there was little mention of Bord na Móna. We are anxious it should play its part in this as well. The communities have been fantastic to Bord na Móna over the years and it has been good to the communities as well. On the environmental change from brown to green, we must remember the just transition. It is important to recognise that it was to be an eight-year process, which was brought down to two and was then even shortened below two. We accepted that but we need the same response from those organisations, from the ESB and from Bord na Móna, to act swiftly and as quickly as possible.