MINISTER CONFIRMS INCREASED COMPENSATION FOR GALWAY TURFCUTTERS

Date Published: 07-Mar-2012

Raised bog owners in Galway are to be offered a 50 percent increase in the compensation package on offer by government.

The new offering has now been confirmed by Minister for Heritage Jimmy Deenihan for turf cutters who must stop cutting on protected habitats.

Galway turfcutters now stand to be compensated by 15-hundred euro a year for 15 years - as well as a once off payment of 500 euro.

It comes at the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association are to hold a national protest outside the Dail today [Mar 7].