I will keep this brief as we will have an opportunity to raise this in the Topical Issue debate although that might be late in the evening.

Hold on. We have a long day ahead. What is the problem? I cannot be listening to snide remarks from the side. What is the issue?

Is this in the Order of Business?

Yes, as is customary. There are no changes.

I raise the issue of the job losses in Bord na Móna announced this morning. As my colleague, Deputy Naughten, will know, I live five minutes from the power station and three minutes away from the Bord na Móna works. Some 150 people are effected by this. I ask the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Bruton, to arrange a meeting immediately with the ESB and the EPA and Bord na Móna to try and get the power station re-opened as quickly as possible.

Second, this is a huge blow for the seasonal workers who have been hit, many of whom are students and part-time farmers. Will the Ministers ask Bord na Móna and the ESB to replace some of those people with other works in the area? We know that things are changing and that it is a difficult situation but we really need immediate action on this.

As I said, this will come up later. I call Deputy Naughten.

On my behalf and on that of the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran, we have been told that job losses are because of a 2013 alteration to the ESB licence for the Lanesboro power station. We did not see any solutions brought forward by the company for five full years until 2018. This now threatens over 300 jobs. I ask that the Minister, Deputy Bruton, haul the three organisation involved, the ESB, Bord na Móna and the EPA, into his office this afternoon and that he would come to the Dáil this evening and provide us with a proper plan for how we will protect these jobs in the midlands.

It somewhat negates my reading the Topical Issues selected but I ask the Minister to respond.

The Tánaiste has outlined the position as of today. I will deal with this during the Topical Issue debate this afternoon.