Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 27 January 2011
123 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 12 January 2011, the provision made in the 2011 Estimate to compensate turf cutters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4454/11]
View answerProvision to meet costs arising from the acquisition of turbary rights and freehold under the voluntary bog purchase scheme, together with compensation for commercial and domestic turf cutters who have been obliged to cease activities within designated bogs, will be included in the Revised Estimates for 2011, and supplemented as necessary by support from the Environment Fund over the coming year.
