The Environment Minister faces in to crunch talks with his coalition partners ahead of this evening's Dail debate on turf.
TDs and Senators from Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have expressed misgivings with Eamon Ryan's plan to ban the commercial sale of turf from September.
Fine Gael and Fianna Fail backbenchers will welcome the Environment Minister to talks today as Eamon Ryan seeks to win support for his controversial turf ban.
Sinn Féin will table a motion calling on the government to scrap the plans and is asking all TDs to support it.
The details of the ban still have to be revealed and there are plenty of skeptics who need to be won over by the Minister.
Irish Rural link says it will be keeping a close eye on what the government does to regulate turf cutting and burning in the coming years.
Seamus Boland is making the pledge following a meeting yesterday with Ministers Eamon Ryan, Pippa Hackett, and Joe O' Brien.
The Rural Link CEO says the meeting discussed the banning of smoky fuels as well as rising fuel costs and fuel poverty.
He says burning solid fuels can't be banned until such times that there's a viable alternative option for people, and that will need state guaranteed loan:
Maybe two parents working hard but between childcare and mortgage they simply don't have a spare amount of cash to put upfront in order to collect the grant.
We've argued strongly that the government are going to have a find a way around that either through state guarantees low-interest loans or some other grant system but until they do that they are going to have burn a fuel that everybody says is bad for you and eventually will go.
