John Neenan

Yes, I think it's going to be a very interesting court case if it proceeds because it appears the information that it's based on is...

For example, they're talking about horticultural peat, large-scale extraction.

There's probably less than 600 hectares being harvested in Ireland at the moment by horticultural peat.

Yes, I think the court case will be based on the EPA report in June 2025.

And I investigated those sites and four sites they're referred to.

One was in Abilara, which was a Borna Mona site, and they had stopped harvesting since 2021.

The second site was around here where we are in Clasman and Borna Mona.

And as you see, Clasman and Borna Mona have stopped harvesting since 2021.

Well, first of all, I don't know where they got harvesting in February this year, but they published the photographs.

But what I'm saying is the area is under 30 hectares.

There is no large-scale peat harvesting in Ireland, and I can categorically say that.

They have said over 50 hectares, and that's not the case.

There is, but I was the last three days, I was with the Irish Peatlands Conference and we went to see a lot of bogs where rehabilitation is taking place.

Personally, one of the members, a supplier to one of the members of Growing Mighty Ireland has planted a one hectare area of sphagnum.

Yes, Philip.

But when I came to this company here in 1986, we were grant aided by the IDA at that stage.

One of the conditions of that grant aid was that we could not sell in Ireland or we could not sell in the UK.

We had to sell in Europe.

So it's only in the very last short number of years that this issue has arisen.

Yes, but the European Union are not saying anything about rehabilitation.