asked the Minister for Industry, Commerce and Energy whether he regards the recently published interim report of the interdepartmental committee on cutaway bogs as an adequate and satisfactory production in view of the number of years the exploitation of this resource has been under consideration and experiment; and when he expects the committee's final report to appear.
Written Answers. - Cutaway Bogs Report.
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The answer to the first part of the question is "yes". As to the committee's final report I would refer the Deputy to paragraph 9.3 of the interim report which states that much more research and development work has to be done and that it is likely to be a number of years yet before final conclusions can be reached on the optimum use of cutaway bog.