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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Consultation Process (4 Dec 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...22 January - Dublin (Dublin City) Stakeholder Workshop 23 January 2019 - Public consultation 15 May-14 June 2019 2019 A key issues paper for public consultation on a review of the use of peat in the horticultural industry has been published. Submissions have been invited on the key issues paper during the three month period closing on 20 January 2020....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)

...has been a very exciting month. We have seen a real sense of urgency that I have not seen in some time. The publication of the climate action plan is to be very much welcomed. The phasing out of peat stations is also to be welcomed. The approval by the Government of the renewal energy support scheme, RESS, with a revised goal to deliver up to 70% renewables in our electricity mix by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...in public transport. Deputies will be aware that in recent days I announced a €1 billion five-year investment in our railways. In many towns, smoky fuels are responsible for poor air quality. We know that smoky coal, peat and wood are equally bad when it comes to damaging air quality. This issue, on which I answered a question from Deputy Martin earlier, needs to be looked at in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...committee on the environment. We acknowledge that poor air quality has a severe impact on people's health. We are keen to act on this issue, and things have changed since the 1990s. We now know that peat briquettes and wood are as bad for air quality as smoky coal. Switching from smoky coal to those other solid fuels does nothing for air quality. There is also a serious risk of a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (3 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: 66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she is taking to support job creation in the midland peat counties following the announced closure of the Lough Ree and West Offaly power stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49704/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

...well aimed and well aligned with the potential of the land. We need to open our thinking a bit more in terms of bringing in more marginal land. Equally, we have planted in organic soils and deep peats in the past where perhaps we should not have. We need to bring fresh thinking to this area, and Coillte will contribute to that conversation and debate. The Deputy asked about planting...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Lowry: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, would know Bord na Móna made a decision to cease its peat processing operations in Littleton, with the consequent loss of 120 jobs, which has had a devastating impact on the local economy and community. Subsequent to that, Bord na Móna announced the closure of a number of facilities in the midlands....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition Fund (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...enterprise development. On immediate resources that are available, the budget announced €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme to be focused on the midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na Móna estate, €6 million for a dedicated new just transition fund, with ESB agreeing to contribute an additional €5...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Quality (28 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Bruton: ..., in a way that I can be confident I can enforce the change and not undermine the existing law. In the context of the previous question, the issue is that the ban in place does not extend to peat and wet wood. They, too, are substantial causes of pollution.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: Transitioning away from fossil fuels to more renewable, sustainable energy sources is at the heart of the Climate Action Plan. Currently 40% of our homes use coal and peat for heating, many in combination with other fossil fuel heating systems. By 2030, we will upgrade a third of all homes to at least a B2 energy standard, installing approximately 400,000 heat pumps. Currently over 99% of our...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (28 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: ...a low carbon economy, immediate interventions must be put in place in those locations and for those sectors imminently under threat, such as those whose livelihoods are dependent on Bord na Móna peat extraction activities. The Committee also highlighted the importance of exploring opportunities to green existing jobs, and create new jobs in areas such as energy retrofitting for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: Transitioning away from fossil fuels to more renewable, sustainable energy sources is at the heart of the Climate Action Plan. Currently 40% of homes use coal and peat for heating (many in combination with other fossil fuel heating systems). By 2030, we will upgrade a third of all homes to at least a B2 energy standard, installing approximately 400,000 heat pumps. Currently over 99% of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., the Climate Action Plan sets out a number of supplementary measures to reduce emissions from the sectors covered by the EU ETS in Ireland, including: - delivering an early and complete phase-out of coal and peat fired electricity generation; - increasing electricity generated from renewable source to 70%; - working with the enterprise sector to support delivery of identified...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (28 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: ..., Climate Action and Environment the meetings or discussions he has had with both Bord na Móna management and a person (details supplied) on the planned job losses at the company and the ending of peat harvesting; if the issue of negotiations with workers' representatives was discussed; if the issue of retraining workers affected was discussed or raised by him or his officials; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: The Government recognises that early and complete phase-out of peat for electricity generation will have a significant impact on the workers, their families and the Midlands as a whole. In this context, the Government has committed to delivering a whole-of-Government approach to addressing this challenge, and to working with local stakeholders to ensure that people impacted can be best be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department recognises wetlands and peat soils as an important carbon pool in the Irish landscape. Reducing emissions by water table manipulation has the potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions from these soils and is a means to positively contribute to our climate change mitigation ambitions. This is an important part of Agriculture's contribution to the emission reductions and is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Mick Barry: ...knows that substantial use of fossil fuels in the EU's energy system for even another 15 years is incompatible with the commitments given under the Paris Agreement. The Government faces one way on peat but seems to face another way on fracked gas. Why is that? Why does the Government not state clearly that fracked gas will not be allowed to be part of the Irish State's energy mix? ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: My Department recognises wetlands and peat soils as an important carbon pool in the Irish landscape. Reducing emissions by water table manipulation has the potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions from these soils and is a means to positively contribute to our climate change mitigation ambitions. This is an important part of Agriculture's contribution to the emission reductions and is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: ...TD, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment and I announced that Coillte Nature and Bord na Móna are collaborating on a new project which will see bogs that are no longer being used for peat production, transformed into rich native woodlands. This initiative will see approximately 3 million native trees being established, mainly through the direct seeding method,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Obligation Levy (27 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...with the European Commission to explore the potential for a support scheme, funded through a Public Service Obligation, for the enhanced rehabilitation of Bord na Móna bogs used to harvest peat for electricity generation over and above what Bord na Móna is obliged to do under its EPA licences. A formal pre-notification proposal will be submitted through the Commission's State Aid...