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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our new forestry programme has made changes regarding where trees can be planted. Anything with a peat depth of more than 30 cm is excluded from our current forestry programme. Many areas which would have traditionally been forested many decades ago are no longer eligible because our understanding from the research and evidence about the contribution to emissions reductions has...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Habitats Growth (6 Mar 2014)

Jimmy Deenihan: Active raised bogs are acid, peat forming, rainfall fed bogs, with a water level generally higher than in the surrounding areas and dominated by bog mosses (Sphagnum species) which are the main peat forming species. The principal peat forming bog mosses require water tables over, at or slightly below the bog surface for most of the year and water levels rarely drop more than 20cms below the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (27 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to peat extraction, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no involvement in its regulation. This is a planning process under the remit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) license process, under the remit of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. I continue to engage...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (23 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: ...of 21 September 1999, in Case C-392/96. The measures also resulted in the withdrawal of further legal action against Ireland in Case C-294/03. Under the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 peat extraction was exempt from the requirement for planning permission in the case of: (a) a new or extended area of less than 10 hectares (b) a new or extended area of 10 hectares or more,...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...regulations is to ensure better quality and more efficient fuels will be available on the market. Low smoke ovoids are a suitable cost-efficient alternative to other types of high polluting coal, peat and wood logs in terms of heat delivered per cent cost. Given recent research which highlights a greater dependence on solid fuels by those in energy poverty, the risk of long-term...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...action is taken, Ireland will be short 260 MW of electricity in 2022 and 2023. Why has this happened? The Government - in other words, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - has pandered to the Green Party, closing peat power stations such as Lough Ree. Bord Gáis customers face a 12% rise in gas and a 10% in increase in electricity prices. There have been something like 17 announcements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Mr. Niall Curley: That is exactly it. Only 20% of the target for agricultural peatland can be covered by something other than agricultural area. That means forestry or peatland forestry or peat extraction. Only 20% of the target can come from Bord na Móna peat extraction areas, so the majority of the target must be met by agricultural peatland farms. As Deputy Fitzmaurice stated, it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: This is clear evidence of tokenism rather than real environmental action. An ideological pursuit by some of the Minister's colleagues to try to eliminate the use of peat for horticultural activities has resulted in a situation where peat is being imported. We also face the very real prospect of jobs, such as those in the mushroom sector, being exported. We could lose a vibrant part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (11 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ... approved by Government and adopted by the European Commission in December 2022. The Programme aims to address the long-term economic transition of the Midlands, following the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation, incorporating €84.5 million of funding from the EU Just Transition Fund for the period 2021 to 2027. When national co-financing is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024)

...area scheme, because people can plant without a licence, they only go through scheme approval. In effect, it is red and green. They put in their submissions. There are various layers in terms of peat, hen harrier, freshwater pearl mussel and high nature value farmland. On that basis we can issue the approval. It is possible to plant native species on peat. It just has to come through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Mr. John Enright: To come back to Deputy Fitzmaurice, I certainly agree with him that this is a grab you by the neck effort. There is no doubt about that. On the first comment on peat soils, people have this impression that peat soils are non-productive. We have members milking cows, finishing cattle and sheep and growing tillage crops on peat soils. People do not realise that. They are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Carol Nolan: Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to reconvene the working group on horticultural peat? The sector is in deep crisis at present. We must ensure the group has a chance to come together again. The Minister also needs to explain the reasons why the main recommendations the working group made were ignored. One of the recommendations was the phasing out of peat up to 2030. It has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implications of Climate Action Plan for Agricultural Sector: Teagasc (14 Apr 2021)

Dr. Frank O'Mara: There is not much more to say on that. It is the only option at the moment for most horticultural producers. The volume of peat that was being used for domestic horticultural production accounted for a small proportion of the overall volume of peat that was being extracted. To the best of my knowledge, it was in the low single figures as a percentage of the total. It had...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Horticulture Sector (27 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...of the horticulture and mushroom sector on Friday, 23 July. This meeting mainly focused on the serious difficulties facing professional growers due to lack of supply of horticultural grade peat, and the need for any proposed solutions to be fully compliant with the requirements of the EU Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive. I would like to thank the attendees...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2010) See 6 other results from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...sure that the carbon windfall which accrues to them is recovered. As I said, that is likely to be a small percentage of their output but one we did not want to omit. I will give details on the peat one because while in our initial discussions on this Bill I was of a like mind that we should apply it to all generators, even in the peat plants where there is a PSO in place, I asked my...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Sales (16 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...these standards will improve the quality of the air that we breathe, and the health of the public that we serve. From September 2022, coal, coal-based products, any manufactured solid fuel or peat productswill be required to have a smoke emission rate of less than 10g/hour, reducing to 5g/hr by 2025. In order for such fuels, including peat briquettes imported or otherwise, to be placed on...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (22 Mar 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ..., I hated every day I spent on the bog. Bord na Móna employs approximately 450 people in County Kildare. The company has a long association with the county, which historically centred on peat harvesting operations across bogs in the north and west of the county. Bord na Móna's 450 County Kildare based employees are located at a number of centres, including the company's...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (10 Dec 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Jackie Cahill: 205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for businesses that harvest peat moss for horticultural use; if businesses will be permitted to harvest in summer 2021 given that alternative methods for this production are not currently in place; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if harvesting is not permitted in 2021 horticultural peat moss...

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (23 Nov 2004) See 1 other result from this answer

Noel Dempsey: ...Development Acts, Bord na Móna plc is charged with the management, development and working of the bogs and other lands vested in the company. Bord na Móna plc owns approximately 7% of the total peatland in Ireland. The estimated reserves of peat for energy in the ownership of the company is calculated at 45 million tonnes. Neither my Department nor Bord na Móna plc is in a position to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We are getting a full assessment at the moment of exactly what our land profile is, where the peat-based soils are and particularly where the drained peat-based soils are because we do not have a very accurate overview of that currently. That is going to be important as regards clarifying what the Cathaoirleach is looking for. In the meantime we have other work under way, whether it be...