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- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Expenditure (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: 37. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on LEADER and its underspend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43661/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Service Provision (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: 42. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of discussions he has had with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment with regard to broadband provision in rural communities, including the role of his Department in the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43658/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (24 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the special weight allowance for waste collection services will be put in place for those households that have a person with incontinence. [44041/19]
- Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. More than seven years ago the Government went down this cul-de-sac with the national broadband plan and we are no further on. The Government has spent €26 million on one tranche of consultants' fees alone without even a metre of cable being laid. It is a farcical situation and reckless in the extreme. We have wasted public money....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I welcome Dr. Renou-Wilson and Mr. Lucas. Dr. Renou-Wilson stated abandoning or rewetting drained peat soils under the heading of rehabilitation is not a climate-friendly action because both approaches release large volumes of greenhouse gases. My understanding was that once drained peat has been rewetted, it will stop releasing carbon, but Dr. Renou-Wilson seemed to contradict that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I understand that Dr. Renou-Wilson is talking about raising the water table to just under the top of the bog-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Large parts of the bogs are covered with water in winter, as one can see if one walks across them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I mean that they are flooded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: In the part of the world I come from, bogs would be used to attenuate drainage. They capture a lot of water from surrounding lands. The bog is used to attenuate that over the winter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: The question I wish to ask is about flood alleviation. Obviously, the more bogs are drained, the more flooding there will be because water can be released more quickly and we know the damage that is doing. To reverse that, many of those bogs have the capacity to hold water and to raise it to ground level or it can fluctuate up or down around that. It would be very difficult to control. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Yes. She said cutover was typically for domestic turf cutting. I have engaged in domestic turf cutting and I worked for a State company that was extracting peat. The State company was cutting over; it was taking off 1 m to 2 m. As regards cutaway, when turf cutting for ourselves, we went straight down to the gravel or the white sand at the bottom. That is cutaway. There is some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is the remaining raised bog. The vegetation is on the remaining raised bog.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: No, it is the remaining raised bog if one is cutting on the edge of the bog. I do not wish to make too fine a point of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: What we would refer to as cutaway is where the peat has been taken away completely at the edges, while the cutover I am referring to in Bord na Móna is where up to 3 m of peat is still left in the bog. Bord na Móna has taken 1 m or 1.5 m. from it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have a question for Mr. Lucas. Given the importance of restoring the peatlands, has the Department set out a verifiable pathway for the rehabilitation recommended by the committee? There is a division between Departments and I realise civil servants cannot do much about this. However, there is a problem here. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: I asked Dr. Renou-Wilson a question about crops on cutaway bog that are suitable for biomass.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: It is a very important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Extracted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Brian Stanley: Yes.