Does the Minister know if Bord na Móna see themselves as having any role in the exploitation of cut-away bog through growing biomass crops?

Deputy Kelly might appreciate that that also is a separate question.

I do not want to argue with you but it seems to arise out of Question No. 7 in which Deputy O'Keeffe asked the Minister about the development of bogs as part of an energy programme.

The Deputy is dealing with cut-away bogs.

It is bog on which there is still a thin blanket of decayed vegetable matter.

The Chair understands that the question relates to the development of bogs.

It says bogland and that can be either cut-away bogs or——

A bogland which is cut away still belongs to Bord na Móna and presumably they must have some plans for it although I must admit that the report of the inter-departmental committee——

This question relates to the energy programme.

——makes very thin reading after five years. It is eight pages. I do not know if the Minister has had time to catch up with it yet. Do Bord na Móna see themselves as having any role in this regard?

Yes, they do.