Barry Cowen among dissenting TDs challenging minister Eamon Ryan over proposed turf ban

Fianna Fáil back bencher says Green minister 'has come down the ladder, but he has a good few more rungs to go yet'

Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins   22/09/2021 

Eamon Ryan's watering down of a proposed ban on the sale of turf still does not go far enough according to a Fianna Fáil TD.

The Green Party leader has now suggested that small rural communities of under 500 people will be exempt from a ban on the sale of turf, which is due to come into force in September.