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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: They are not exempt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We are going around in circles in this debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: But that is the process and how we operate. That is our democratic right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Because the supply is not coming from the domestic sources.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Because they need to be legally compliant and engage with the regulatory process. When they are legally compliant, there will be access.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: To clarify in terms of the exportation of peat, the figures we get from the CSO do not differentiate, which I said in response to a question put in the Dáil recently. Peat in the export sense could be horticultural, a blend, briquettes or any form of peat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Excuse me. I did clarify that it was not broken down and that it was an overall figure. In terms of volume, amount, and value, we do export more peat than we import, however-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: One of the reasons we took on Seamus Boland as an independent was to examine the stocks and to see where they were. The Deputy looks puzzled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Personally, I have not engaged.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: The Deputy can nod his head all he likes. The engagements we had were through an independent expert. We recruited Seamus Boland to do that. That was the initial remit of his recruitment, however, through the lack of engagement he got from the sector, we are still in the dark in terms of who has what.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Some of it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I do not have the breakdown because the CSO figures do not differentiate, but some of it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: To use such language as the sector "is going to go under" is unfair. It is not going to go under.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: The sector will not go under. I accept there are associated costs with peat if people are having to import peat. The sector is under pressure not just because of peat. As the Senator mentioned, there are issues with labour and energy costs. My Department addressed the added pressures in the sector with its horticultural exceptional payment scheme this year, which was a €2.8 million...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We need that engagement and that engagement has not been forthcoming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: As the Deputy highlighted, it is an incredibly difficult place. The recommendations in the report will be examined. It needs a cross-government approach. In response to some of the comments, I do not know if I would agree that it is harsh to say that people did not engage. My understanding is that only five out of 90 did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I do not think it is fair to say nothing is happening. We are moving along a course and, as I have said from the start, it is incredibly difficult. Not all of it lies within my responsibility to change and effect change and I know the Deputy appreciates that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: I am not responsible for peat extraction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: We acknowledged that there is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: It is a matter for the Minister with responsibility for planning, if that Minister is invited. People seem to imply the Minister has been invited many times. It is a matter for that Minister. I accepted the invitation. I accept that-----