34. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has contacted the Department of Justice and Equality demanding that gardaí be sent out to patrol bogs with a view to preventing domestic turf cutters from exercising their rights to cut their own turf, for their own use, on their own family turf banks; if she will confirm that it is her Department that has hired airplanes and engaged helicopters, at taxpayers' expense, to monitor bogs; the cost to the taxpayer of all of these operations on an annual basis since such operations began; her views that it would be preferable to resolve the issues involved by co-operation and compromise achieved through fair and honest negotiations, as has consistently been offered by the Turf Cutters and Contractors' Association, than impacting on Garda resources that would otherwise be better deployed fighting crime and protecting citizens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16850/15]

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34. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has contacted the Department of Justice and Equality demanding that gardaí be sent out to patrol bogs with a view to preventing domestic turf cutters from exercising their rights to cut their own turf, for their own use, on their own family turf banks; if she will confirm that it is her Department that has hired airplanes and engaged helicopters, at taxpayers' expense, to monitor bogs; the cost to the taxpayer of all of these operations on an annual basis since such operations began; her views that it would be preferable to resolve the issues involved by co-operation and compromise achieved through fair and honest negotiations, as has consistently been offered by the Turf Cutters and Contractors' Association, than impacting on Garda resources that would otherwise be better deployed fighting crime and protecting citizens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16850/15]

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1. 30 April 2015

   Turbary Rights

   34. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has contacted the Department of Justice and Equality demanding that gardaí be sent out to patrol bogs with a view to preventing domestic turf cutters from exercising their rights to cut their own turf, for their own use, on their own family turf banks; if she will confirm that it is her Department that has hired airplanes and engaged helicopters, at taxpayers' expense, to monitor bogs; the cost to the taxpayer of all of these operations on an annual basis since such operations began; her views that it would be preferable to resolve the issues involved by co-operation and compromise achieved through fair and honest negotiations, as has consistently been offered by the Turf Cutters and Contractors' Association, than impacting on Garda resources that would otherwise be better deployed fighting crime and protecting citizens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16850/15]

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