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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (16 Oct 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: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...security. As we move towards the target set out in the Climate Action Plan of 70% renewable electricity by 2030, natural gas will continue to be an important fuel in the transition away from coal, peat and oil to more sustainable sources of energy. I have initiated a comprehensive energy security review that will consider the electricity generation mix including the role for gas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...renewables sector, implementation of the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme, and development of an enabling framework for micro-generation. The Plan also commits Ireland to fully exit from peat and coal for electricity generation in the next decade. According to Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland data, the renewable electricity share of gross final consumption of electricity in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...increase from the current level of 30%. The Climate Action Plan provides for the early and complete phase-out of the highest CO2 intensity fossil fuels in the electricity sector, coal by 2025 and peat by 2028 leading to a reduction of 7-8Mt of CO2 emissions by 2030. The specific trajectory of renewable electricity out to 2030 will be set out in Ireland's National Energy and Climate Plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change Advisory Council Annual Review 2019: Discussion (16 Oct 2019) See 4 other results from this debate

...to that question. The council has recommended that the Government publish a detailed plan for achieving its commitment to end the burning of coal at Moneypoint by 2025. We also recommend the cessation of peat-fired electricity generation in 2020. The construction and building sector is operating near full capacity. There is an urgent need to increase its ability to deliver the...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Seán Kyne: ...the actions relevant to bog habitats contained in a national plan or plan for the island of Ireland concerning reversing pollinator decline. I am conscious of the benefits of the restoration of peatlands for Ireland's commitments under international climate change targets. Functioning peatlands capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the form of peat and vegetation. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2020 (15 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: ...Building on the success of our locally-led environmental schemes through the Rural Development Programme, some of this fund will be used to fund a call for a new pilot EIP scheme on reduced management of farmed peat-land. My Department will issue a call for proposals in due course. This is designed to increase carbon sequestration and contribute to meeting our commitments as part the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...funding. Further details of this comprehensive whole of Government response to support the transition will be announced shortly. As the Deputy will be aware, following the closure of the former Bord na Mona peat briquette factory in Littleton, a partnership between Bord na Móna and a Chinese recycling company, Sabrina, was announced in July this year. This has seen the creation...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Compensation Schemes (15 Oct 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...with fish. ARC-03 Blasting, drilling, dredging or otherwise removing or disturbing fossils, rock, minerals, mud, sand, gravel or other sediment. ARC-04 All activities relating to turf cutting and/or peat extraction. ARC-05 Cutting, uprooting or otherwise removing plants. [Consent is not required for harvesting of cultivated crops, or for grazing or mowing.] ARC-06 Introduction, or...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...has taken place on some of the designated bogs. If a bog has to be lined, there will be fewer people working on the site. I read today an article in one of the newspapers that 120 people would be involved. As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will understand better than everyone else, anyone rewetting a bog with peat will need a digger and using a digger means putting in a scraw to block a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...my Government colleagues recognised the uniquely challenging impact of the country's decarbonisation transition on Offaly in the context of Bord na Móna's transition away from the harvesting of peat in order to generate power for the ESB. I have had intense discussions with the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister of Communications, Climate Action and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 Oct 2019)

Michael Creed: ...our commitments under the Climate Action Plan. My Department published a paper in 2010 through the Council for Forestry Research and Development, COFORD, called “The greenhouse gas balance of peatland forests”. This paper highlighted the dynamics at play with regard to peatlands and peatland forests and their capacity to both emit carbon while also acting as an important...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statutory Instruments (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: I signed the European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Peat Extraction) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 4 of 2019) on 25 January 2019, with the objective of making the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the sole competent authority for peat extraction of over 30 hectares in Ireland, and making Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for such activity mandatory. In conjunction with the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, in transport and in heating. The Government has a fundamental duty to protect Ireland’s energy security. In the next decade we will fully exit from peat and coal for electricity generation and we will go from 30% renewable electricity today to 70% renewable electricity in 2030. In making these critical changes, we must ensure that our...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Forestry Sector (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...aim of increasing biodiversity, enhancing the landscape for recreation, and improving the carbon balance of these sites. Bord na Móna’s Ecology and Rehabilitation team are leaders in the area of peatlands rehabilitation. The company’s rehabilitation principles have always been to re-wet peat where possible and to work in tandem with nature. Bord na Móna’s...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Harty: ...fund of €6 million, which is very welcome. It also proposes to establish the position of transition commissioner. However, the Budget Statement only refers to supporting the midlands communities where peat burning stations will cease operation by 2028. A power station omitted from it that should have been included is Moneypoint because it is in a similar position. It must cease...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Implications for Ireland of the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU in Regard to the Energy Sector (9 Oct 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

...towards meeting Ireland’s EU emissions targets. It is critical they are facilitated and supported if this transition is to happen this decade. With the delivery of this increase in renewables, along with the complete phasing out of coal and peat in the first half of the decade, gas will have a critical role to play. High efficiency gas generation will provide the flexibility to...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...generating jobs for themselves. The provision of €20 million is a welcome initiative, but it has taken the imminent loss of hundreds of jobs in the midlands to get a meaningful response from the Government. Trade unions and environmental groups have been warning about the need for an exit strategy from the use of peat and coal for over a decade. The writing has been on the wall...

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019) See 2 other results from this debate

Maura Hopkins: ...are facing very tight margins. Any increases have a significant impact. With regard to the midlands, it is positive that the region is going to be supported in light of Bord na Móna's move away from peat harvesting and An Bord Pleanála's decision not to grant planning permission for the power station at Shannonbridge to convert to burning biomass. That has huge repercussions...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...of both companies in the coming period. A Just Transition for regions impacted by climate change is an integral part of the Climate Action Plan. In response to the challenges arising from the exit from peat extraction for energy consumption, a whole of Government response is being prepared to ensure a Just Transition for the Midlands and the for Bord na Mona employees impacted.