John Neenan

What they're saying at this moment is that areas are being harvested without proper licences.

You're not objecting to peat harvesting per se.

They're harvesting in Germany...

in Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Estonia.

So there's not an issue about harvesting peat with the EU.

The issue now is that there is nobody that will come on and say, yes, it's okay, you have done your screenings and you do not require planning.

No, the misconception again is that we are saying we are opening new areas of bog.

The areas of bog are already opened.

The emissions from those 600 hectares of horticultural peat in Ireland...

is less than the emissions from one day's flights from Dublin to London Airport.

So it is insignificant.

The area of land, 600 hectares in relation to the 1.4 million hectares of peatlands in Ireland,

No, the taxpayer is not responsible for the private operators like the companies we're here today.

Yeah, Philip, that's a complete misconception again.

The Irish peat industry in Ireland has reduced its levels by over 90% between 2019 and 2025.

There's not one other industry in Ireland that have made such reductions.

The electricity are somewhere like 33%.

So we are way ahead of any other industry in this country.

It was part of the government's policy to develop peat fields.

So they set up Bornemona to develop the peat fields.