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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...stakeholders in the Midlands, setting out the analysis of the challenges facing the region, and for Bord na Móna workers, their families and communities, arising from an accelerated exit from peat harvesting. The report contains important recommendations. The Government is already acting on a number of these and is committed to preparing an implementation plan to address the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...opportunities to sectors and regions most affected, and ensures that vulnerable groups are helped, as transformative policies are implemented. The Government recognises that the transition out of peat in the Midlands is the first test of a just transition for Ireland, arising from an accelerated exit from peat harvesting in the area. As part of the EU Green Deal, the European Commission...

Seanad: Biodiversity: Motion (5 Nov 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Rebecca Moynihan: ...and entertaining speech from Senator Garvey on the issue. As a pure inner-city woman who grew up in a concrete jungle, I always find it useful to listen to contributors with a knowledge of peat, soil and hedgerows. It is generally accepted that we are in the middle of a climate and biodiversity crisis with dramatic knock-on effects. As the motion notes, around 1 million animal species...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...rules. He told a conference late last month that there is an urgent need to change state aid rules to better support local authorities, businesses and communities in the midlands moving away from reliance on peat production towards the just transition. He went on to point out that there is absolutely no point in encouraging local communities to think big and come up with innovative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: .... Has NESC looked, for example, at studies that examined the closure of the coal industry in Spain or in the Ruhr valley for a just transition model that might help us to apply it to the closure of the peat industry here? I have a question for Professor Anderson as well. If he can, I ask Professor Anderson to expand on his work on why carbon sequestration and storage is not a good model...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (3 Nov 2020) See 6 other results from this debate

Senator Pippa Hackett: I recognise the huge importance of the mushroom industry here and peat is used as a casing material as part of that. There are efforts within the mushroom industry and with my Department looking at alternatives. It is probably early days in that but two funding research projects are currently commissioned by Ireland's mushroom producer organisation, Commercial...

Forestry (Planning Permission) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Timber is going to come in from Germany and Paddy in Ireland will be looking at the trees growing with no money in his pocket and the timber coming in as per usual. The same is happening with the peat we are bringing in through Drogheda for mushroom compost. That is the Ireland we live in now. This is green Ireland, the great Ireland and great environment we are going to create. I do...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...interface with public roads or with another railway system. As Senators may be aware, there is one such railway currently operating in Ireland and that is the Bord na Móna network, which the company uses for its peat operations. Heritage railways are also included, and there are a number of these throughout the country, including in counties Clare, Donegal, Kerry, Laois, Leitrim and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...to €77 million. This support is expected to leverage total investment of €300 million in the period up to 2027. A total of €6 million is being provided for the just transition fund in 2020 to support innovative projects and the wider midlands region as it transitions away from peat. Appropriations-in-aid are income receipts of the Department other than from the...

Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...Luas. They also include privately owned rail networks used for freight, to the extent that those railways interface with public roads or with another railway system. As Deputies may be aware, there is one such railway currently operational in Ireland and that is the extensive Bord na Móna network used for its peat operations. Heritage railways are also included and there are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

...the question of whether a particular forest actually will sequester carbon over its lifetime or rather, whether it will be a persistent source of carbon, because, for example, it is planted on peat soils. There are some really important issues there. On Senator O'Reilly's question on interaction between interim targets and climate budgets, on looking at the different legislative...

Ceisteanna – Questions: National Economic and Social Council (20 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...the just transition, we moved in respect of the midlands. The Government provided €20 million for the first retrofit scheme, with quite a number of counties affected by the decisions relating to the peat-burning stations. That is one part of the pre-emptive moves that were identified in the NESC report to create alternative enterprises and employment in areas affected by climate...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Carbon Tax Yield (20 Oct 2020)

Michael McGrath: ...management of their land by undertaking specific actions which they report directly based on the results generated from their actions. The funds will also contribute to targeting other specific commitments in the Programme for Government, including re-wetting of peat soils and climate and biodiversity training, in measures that will be available to a broad range of farmers. Finally,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges for the Forestry Sector: Discussion (20 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to shoot it out of the way and get it sorted quickly. We can talk about forestry. Some 12,000 jobs will be at stake. Timber is being brought into this country at the moment. There is moss peat coming into Dundalk and timber coming into Cork and Limerick. One would wonder what we are doing. What we are at in this country at the moment is like bringing oil to the Arabs. We need to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (15 Oct 2020) See 4 other results from this debate

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Deputy for their nice welcome. Peat is traditionally a very important component of the national horticultural and amenity plant sector. Approximately 60% of the value of Irish horticulture is dependent on peat as a growth medium, with the mushroom amenity...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Oct 2020)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...for older people scheme; (5) Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss the terms, conditions and pension rights of school secretaries; (6) Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the issue of horticultural peat harvesting; (7) Deputy Michael Moynihan - to discuss the provision of high-speed broadband throughout north Cork; (8) Deputy Carol Nolan - the need to prioritise the introduction of...

Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)

Barry Ward: ...connectivity to an island nation like Ireland and beyond the importance of transporting cargo as much as people. The aviation leasing sector, which to a large extent had its origins in Shannon through Guinness Peat Aviation, makes a massive contribution annually to the economy of this country. It is a sector that is suffering just as much.The amendment takes on board exactly what the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (8 Oct 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...and relative prices, taking account of how citizens, depending on their social and geographic circumstances, will be affected in different ways. The Government recognises that the transition out of peat in the Midlands is the first test of a just transition for Ireland.  The first progress report of the Just Transition Commissioner, Mr Kieran Mulvey, ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Horticulture Sector (7 Oct 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: .... We have a particularly good Minister of State, who has shown a particular grá for and interest in heritage for many years. I wish him well in the task ahead of him. I wish to raise the national peatlands strategy and the issue of peat moss in the horticultural industry. I understand that the preservation and restoration of peatlands is part of the country's climate action...

Seanad: Aviation Industry: Statements (1 Oct 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...40% of the world's commercial airliner fleet currently being leased. Ireland has become a global centre for the aircraft leasing industry, largely as a result of the skills developed during the era of Guinness Peat Aviation, the first truly global leader in this industry. Ireland is now one of the largest international hubs for aircraft leasing and aircraft management activities. The...