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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)
Matt Carthy: When Mr. Breen says it is in a stockpile, is it in mounds or is it sitting on the ground?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Is it in a single mound?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Will Mr. Breen give us a sense of how much ground the mound covers? I presume it would be measured in acres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: ICL will take over the running of the Coolnamona plant and will have access to the 2,000 tonnes of high-grade horticultural peat. I presume it will also source peat from other sources.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Breen expect that to be sourced domestically or imported?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: ICL's current customer base would not justify the operating of that plant full time. Is that fair to say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: In respect of the contract with which Bord na Móna engaged with ICL, did it not provide a business case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Bord na Móna is providing a ready-made plant-----
- 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)
Matt Carthy: Mr. Breen mentioned there are specific stocks for the needs of horticultural use in the country at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am trying to get a semblance of understanding as to the merits of this deal vis-à-vis the stated objectives of the working group report. To return to the 2,000 tonnes or so of peat that is sitting in a mound, will Bord na Móna remove that peat from the bog prior to ICL taking control or will the company thereafter take care of the extraction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: What types of machines will be used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Mr. Breen is satisfied planning permission will not be required for that activity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: I will ask for two short points of clarification on some remarks Deputy Leddin made. He welcomed the fact Bord na Móna is working with an independent expert. For clarification of our earlier engagement, am I correct in saying our guests have not, in fact, interacted with the independent expert and do not know whether an independent expert has been appointed yet?
- 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: There has been no engagement with an independent expert. We have not yet had the opportunity to ask the Minister or the Ministers of State when that expert will be appointed. Notwithstanding that, Bord na Móna has engaged on the contract with ICL, as was mentioned. Our guests mentioned ICL would also be sourcing peat from private sources other than Bord na Móna. It was...
- 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)
Matt Carthy: Okay. I find that quite unbelievable, as a statement. Is Mr. Breen still satisfied with his earlier remarks to the effect he does not believe ICL will be importing peat for the plant at Coolnamona? Is it in fact the case that we will see an increase in the number of ships landing in Belfast and elsewhere each week? Was that considered in the decision-making at all?
- 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?