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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: I accept that at this point in time. Progress is being made. We have highlighted this. Ms Byrne went into some detail on the work that is being done on alternatives. The feedback from this is that it is positive. They do see a future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Again it comes back to the fact that engagement with the regulatory process here in Ireland can make it possible to extract. There is no banning of peat extraction in Ireland. It is difficult and I accept 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: Exempted is different from not being in compliance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)
Pippa Hackett: Exempted is a different thing.
- 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.