Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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431. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the approximate cost to Bord na Móna for the closure of the Littleton plant in County Tipperary excluding redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51791/17]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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432. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected cost to Bord na Móna specifically for the winding down and decommissioning of the physical plant and machinery at the Littleton, County Tipperary, plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51792/17]

Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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433. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons who will be employed and the length of time they will have been employed for at the Bord na Móna plant in Littleton, County Tipperary, after the formal closure of the plant to render the plant fully unproductive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51793/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 431 to 433, inclusive, together.

Bord na Móna is a commercial State company operating under the Turf Development Acts 1946 to 1998. The matters raised by the Deputy are operational in nature and not one in which I, as Minister, have any function. Nonetheless, I have requested the Company to respond to the Deputy directly on the matters raised.