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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: It was harvested prior to me making the decision to cease peat harvesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: To be clear, there will be no extraction of this peat from the bog. It is in a stockpile on the bog that has previously been harvested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----and a very valuable commodity in this country at the moment, namely, peat, and it is giving exclusive access to the same company that is leasing the plant from it. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will this arrangement displace the growers and the other players in the sector that the working group report to review the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry set out to protect, or that it at least set out to assist in the transition period ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: To clarify, no extraction of peat is happening. Bord na Móna will be responsible for removing the stockpile to the Coolnamona facility and delivering it to the Coolnamona facility, run by ICL.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Bord na Móna has exported absolutely no peat since then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: No bulk peat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Has it exported any peat at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Brian Leddin: I mean horticultural peat. Am I correct to say that Bord na Móna has reached an agreement with ICL to develop a new media?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Following on from another remark made by Deputy Leddin, am I correct that none of the peat Bord na Móna has in stock is suitable for the needs of the mushroom industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: From where does Mr. Breen suspect ICL will be sourcing peat, on top of the Bord na Móna stockpiles?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

...Ger Breen: I do not know the specifics. There are a number of private producers that may have some stock and there may be some individuals who will seek to get the appropriate consents to harvest peat in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is Mr. Breen's position? Does he believe ICL will be importing peat?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: In that case, whether ICL will import peat did not play a part in Bord na Móna's decision when reaching an agreement with ICL.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: In what years were the stockpiled peat harvested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps Mr. Breen will provide us with a written response on the years in which the peat was extracted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Indeed. Bord na Móna has been diminishing its stockpile. It was exporting over 250 kilotonnes per year up to 2020. How much of this peat would have gone to its subsidiaries in the UK or elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: It is not a large piece of dung or in windrows. It is the result of the consolidation of smaller stockpiles into one. For us to be able to move in the rail system to remove peat economically, we need the stockpile to be of a certain size.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Mr. Ger Breen: What they get from Bord na Móna is the manufactured product, or what we call ready-made compost, of which peat is only one ingredient. Other ingredients are also required. As I said earlier, ICL is one of the largest suppliers of those ingredients for the Irish professional growers' market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...comes, which is a bizarre scenario. I again propose this week that we invite any of the Ministers who are willing to come to discuss this issue to do so. I have a number of questions - all relating to peat. I am aware there are other issues that members want to talk about. I wish to refer to the working group report on reviewing the use of peat moss, which Mr. Breen mentioned, and its...