Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 535: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received and assessed a submission from a committee (details supplied) seeking to have the cutover peatlands of Bord na Móna, Mount Dillon Group on both sides of the Shannon in Longford and Roscommon, retained in State ownership and have a national peatlands park established on the approximately 18,000 acres contained in this geographical area; his view thereon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22463/07]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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I have received a proposal from the North Midlands Peat lands Park Committee. The lands in question are vested in Bord na Móna plc under the Turf Development Act 1946.

I am advised that the lands in question are still being fully utilised by Bord na Móna for the harvesting of milled peat and will be for the foreseeable future.