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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: The announcement of this agreement indicated the peat use will be for the domestic market alone. 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: What safeguards will Bord na Móna have in place in the contractual arrangements to ensure that peat cannot be exported to subsidiaries of ICL or to other third parties outside of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Breen satisfied it is robust enough in that regard?
- 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 have any concern that given the agreement, as has been reported, will allow ICL to expand its operations and given the lack of availability to others based in the Irish market, Bord na Móna has facilitated the supplanting of Irish-owned businesses by this company, which will have the exclusive rights to the 2,000 tonnes of peat we are aware of?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Many of those producers currently get their peat from Bord na Móna. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: On the agreement and this stock of 2,000 tonnes, how much of that high-grade peat is located in storage and how much is on the bogs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: It is sitting there and has been harvested as such, with Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, approval.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Does it have planning permission?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Matt Carthy: Does that mean it does or does not have planning permission?
- 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 High Court decision and a more recent High Court decision involving a separate company, would Mr. Breen's interpretation of those judgments be the same as mine, such that even after the peat has been harvested, for it then to be collected would amount to a subsequent act of harvesting and would also require planning permission? If not, is it Mr. Breen's view that ICL will...
- 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?