Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Discussion

Mr. Leslie Carberry:

The legislation was an honest attempt to do exactly what Deputies were asking for, namely, to absent the requirement for operators to go through a substitute consent process. The courts roundly rejected that approach. I mention the requests for emergency legislation or some form of setting aside of environmental assessments that we have heard about. That was tried in 2019 to some degree and it did not stand up to legal scrutiny.

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