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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Matt Carthy: Deputy Martin Browne has raised the fundamental question here. At the moment there is no viable alternative and certainly no environmentally sustainable alternative to use of horticultural peat in the mushroom industry. The Deputy mentioned 3,000 jobs. These are concentrated in counties like my own county of Monaghan where there are very few alternative economic drivers for the local...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Pippa Hackett: ...because there are, although they are not available at the scale required for the commercial horticulture sector. However, there are, for example, some commercial organic growers who are peat free, so there is scope. There is work and research being done on this but, again, it is about implementing measures over the next number of years to help our sector transition out of peat. Peat...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Martin Browne: 8. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he has had with the mushroom and horticultural sectors on the changes to the harvesting of horticultural peat; and the provisions he is preparing to support the sector. [27066/21]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Martin Browne: I want the Minister to outline the engagements he has had with the members of the horticulture and mushroom sectors since the ban on horticultural peat harvesting and to address the level of dismay within the sector, given the impact of this ban and how they feel abandoned by the Minister and the Department.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Pippa Hackett: It should be noted at the outset that my Department has no role in the regulation or control of peat extraction. However, I am very aware of the current dependence of the horticultural industry on the availability of peat moss. Following on from the publication of a report on the review of the use of peat moss in the horticulture industry by the Department of Housing, Local Government...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Martin Browne: ...just transition does not reach them. They are not being supported and they feel they have been abandoned. As a result, there are businesses in my constituency that are now sourcing horticultural peat from Scotland, Estonia and elsewhere. For a sector that accounts for a minuscule amount of all the peat harvested here, how can the Minister of State say, given the emissions involved in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Pippa Hackett: ...question relates to mushrooms and the wider horticulture sector. The decision by Bord na Móna to cease harvesting has directly affected the sector. The mushroom industry does not tend to acquire peat from Bord na Móna, so it has a slightly different problem, albeit we are going to reach a stage at some time in the future when nobody will be using peat for horticulture,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (20 May 2021)
Martin Browne: ...stories. He told me yesterday he was glad he has only ten more years in the business when the people who should be looking after it have no interest in it. He has had to source horticultural peat from Scotland and Estonia, and costs have risen from €24 per cu. m to €37, and there are also the emissions involved in importing it. It is like the forestry sector. How do we...