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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (14 Oct 2021) See 2 other results from this answer

Brendan Smith: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will introduce as a matter of urgency to ensure that there is an adequate supply of domestic peat for the mushroom and horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50312/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021) See 4 other results from this debate

Alan Farrell: I am a Deputy for Dublin Fingal. Deputy Canney will not be surprised to hear that horticultural peat is an issue that affects my constituency greatly as well. I look forward to a resolution of that matter. Budget 2022 is a very positive one and will benefit people throughout the country, from all backgrounds and walks of life. Regardless of what has been claimed by others, I believe...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Lisa Chambers: ...not to exceed eight minutes and all other Senators not to exceed five minutes, with the Minister of State to be given no less than ten minutes to reply to the debate; No. 3, statements on peat harvesting, substitute consent, to be taken at 3.30 p.m. and to conclude at 5.30 p.m. if not previously concluded, with the time allocated to the Minister of State's opening speech not to exceed ten...

Peat Harvesting: Statements (13 Oct 2021)

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021) See 4 other results from this debate

Marian Harkin: ...with it. In today's context, however, it is seen to penalise. It is meant to encourage a switch to cleaner fuels, electric vehicles and public transport but in rural areas, very often there are no alternative fuels to oil, coal or peat. We do not have gas lines running beside our homes and there is little infrastructure for electric vehicles. Whatever there is in towns and cities,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turf Cutting (12 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the regulatory measures that are being considered as part of an examination into the use of harvest peat sod; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49744/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Quality (12 Oct 2021)

Paschal Donohoe: ...for a ten year trajectory of SFCT increases as part of Government’s commitment to meet climate action objectives. SFCT applies at different rates to four categories of solid fuel including coal, peat briquettes, milled peat and other peat. The SFCT rate on coal, currently €88.23 per tonne, applies to all types of smokeless and “smoky” coal. Under the Treaty...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: On carbon budgets, we have introduced legislation in regard to peat harvesting that has virtually crippled our horticulture industry. Bureaucracy in respect of forestry licences is seriously affecting the level of afforestation. The livestock sector feels under siege, and there are carbon budgets, eco schemes, nitrates reviews and Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, reform. We are going to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (7 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the point at which his attention was drawn to the fact that the report of the working group on horticultural peat would not be furnishing the Minister of State with a completed report by the end of September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48862/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerry Horkan: ...fuel farm was built, the tankers came in, Aeroflot paid for its landing charges in fuel, and fuel was sold to Aer Rianta which sold it on again. Shannon Airport has been incredibly innovative. Guinness Peat Aviation, GPA, was not the ultimate success but it was based at Shannon. Tony Ryan was very insistent on that and he went on to become Mr. Ryanair. Shannon Airport has an enormous...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Canney: ...A lot of the time, we have knee-jerk reactions to climate action without considering that, when we take out a process, we need another in place to take over. We can see where ceasing production of peat moss for horticulture has led us. Thousands of tonnes of stuff are now being imported every week when we have the very same stuff here but have stopped producing it. Something has gone...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (5 Oct 2021)

Paschal Donohoe: ..., which came into operation in April 2015. The industry view is that the actions taken have been successful in curtailing fuel fraud. Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) is an excise duty that applies to coal and peat when first supplied in the State for use as a fuel. Neither the movement of solid fuel into the State nor the physical presence of solid fuel in the State generate a liability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Ms Aoife MacEvilly: The peat plants, when they were in operation, were never competitive in the market. That is why they were supported by the public service obligation, were required to be run on priority dispatch and then required additional payments over and above market prices. It does not seem to be the case that the peat plants would have made a difference. Also, the scale of what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

...gone through some examples of substitute consent. Effectively, when the legislation was first enacted, the vast majority of the cases related to quarries. It is very varied at the moment. We have examples. Peat harvesting has come through as one in the past year and there has been a number of peat cases. Bord na Móna, for example, put through seven or eight applications, but it...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021) See 6 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...asked to have Lanesborough and Shannonbridge reactivated. I am told that the plant in Lanesborough has been taken down, been exported to Germany and has been recommissioned there in. We are importing peat as well. The poor people out there are just devastated. The Government parties think that they can fleece them on the price of food. How are we going to get a tractor that is driven...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...will avoid blackouts and brownouts this winter, but nobody can guarantee it for certain because there are certain factors that are outside of our control. It is important to point out that the peat power stations in the midlands were not closed as a consequence of a Government decision, and nor were they closed at the behest of the Green Party. They were closed because of planning and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2021)

Eugene Murphy: ...by fossil fuels. Let me be quite clear about that. I support Government policy in dealing with that but in the short term, I would like the Government to look at the possibility of re-opening two peat-powered power stations in my part of the country on a temporary basis. One station is in Lanesborough while the other is in Shannonbridge. Of course, it is not the right thing to do in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...later in 2021. The remaining €3m, which is the capital element of the allocation, is being utilised to increase the knowledge base and baseline data for climate and environment, identifying our carbon rich soils through a peat mapping project, a soil moisture monitoring network, and the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions on farmed lands. I am committed to bringing a...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...key driver behind this rising demand is the huge electricity appetite of the country’s data centres, estimated to rise to 29% of total demand by 2028, coupled with the ongoing closure of coal, peat and gas plants, which are pressuring reserve margins and could push prices higher. Here we are with energy prices going through the roof. The international context is also driving...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Sorca Clarke: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by the Multi-Stakeholder Working Group established to examine issues related to the use of peat moss in the horticulture sector. [46902/21]