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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I understand that Dr. Renou-Wilson is talking about raising the water table to just under the top of the bog-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Large parts of the bogs are covered with water in winter, as one can see if one walks across them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I mean that they are flooded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: In the part of the world I come from, bogs would be used to attenuate drainage. They capture a lot of water from surrounding lands. The bog is used to attenuate that over the winter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: The question I wish to ask is about flood alleviation. Obviously, the more bogs are drained, the more flooding there will be because water can be released more quickly and we know the damage that is doing. To reverse that, many of those bogs have the capacity to hold water and to raise it to ground level or it can fluctuate up or down around that. It would be very difficult to control. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Yes. She said cutover was typically for domestic turf cutting. I have engaged in domestic turf cutting and I worked for a State company that was extracting peat. The State company was cutting over; it was taking off 1 m to 2 m. As regards cutaway, when turf cutting for ourselves, we went straight down to the gravel or the white sand at the bottom. That is cutaway. There is some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is the remaining raised bog. The vegetation is on the remaining raised bog.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: No, it is the remaining raised bog if one is cutting on the edge of the bog. I do not wish to make too fine a point of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: What we would refer to as cutaway is where the peat has been taken away completely at the edges, while the cutover I am referring to in Bord na Móna is where up to 3 m of peat is still left in the bog. Bord na Móna has taken 1 m or 1.5 m. from it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have a question for Mr. Lucas. Given the importance of restoring the peatlands, has the Department set out a verifiable pathway for the rehabilitation recommended by the committee? There is a division between Departments and I realise civil servants cannot do much about this. However, there is a problem here. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I asked Dr. Renou-Wilson a question about crops on cutaway bog that are suitable for biomass.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: It is a very important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Extracted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Most of these are not protected because-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: 2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the preparations or contingency planning being carried out to address a no-deal Brexit for rural communities, especially in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43656/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: This is my first question to the Minister since taking up this brief. I welcome the opportunity. I ask the Minister about the preparations or contingency planning being carried out to address a no-deal Brexit. As he will be aware, this will have a direct impact on rural communities. There will be some sort of Brexit. That is a fairly safe bet unless there is a second referendum in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The concern is mainly about a crash-out Brexit but even if there is not a crash-out Brexit and the withdrawal deal is accepted, there will be issues. The deal is probably the best that can be done. We accept that. We backed the omnibus legislation and worked with the Government and other parties in the House to get it through. Even if the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: The Minister of State referenced the rural regeneration and development fund. With regard to areas in which there may be job losses, can that fund be used to offset those losses to ensure that they do not occur or to avoid them? We must try to limit the damage because Brexit is going to cause headaches for everybody. It is about limiting that damage. Recent independent reports from the...