I wholeheartedly agree with Senator Ruane's contribution. As someone who was an early school leaver, not because of my dislike of school but because of my vehement dislike of doing homework, it is past time that we have that debate on the future of homework within our educational system.

The reason I stand here is to address a deal the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, entered into with turf cutters from right across Ireland in 2011. I particularly want to focus on the turf cutters on three bogs - Cloonmoylan, Ardgraigue and Barroughter - in my own area of south-east Galway. In 2011, the NPWS agreed to pay turf bank owners €1,500 per year in compensation, index-linked, if they ceased cutting turf on their banks until alternative turf banks were found for them.

In the vast majority of cases, these alternative turf banks have not been identified by the NPWS and the contract for compensation ends on 1 January 2026.

Therefore, in 2026, these turf bank owners will find themselves without the stream of compensation that was to allow for the purchase of fuel to replace what they would have cut on their own turf banks and without having been given alternative places to cut turf. I call on the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, to intervene in advance of spring 2026 and allow turf cutters to return to cutting turf on their original turf banks, continue the compensation package that was agreed in 2011 or ensure that alternative turf banks are put in place for these people.