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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. I am speaking from memory when I say that extraction accounts for a little under half, or 5 million, of those 11 million tonnes. The remainder is from the drained bogs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Again, Dr. Renou-Wilson has international science on this. If were able to save 5 million of the remaining 6 million tonnes, as a certain amount is very difficult, that would be a total of 10 million tonnes a year. I assume that the price of carbon will be approximately €80 per tonne by 2030. That is what we will have as a carbon price in Ireland. Who knows what the international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: If we can do nine bogs next year with €5 million and this could be repeated over three years, we could do approximately 27 bogs at the end of the third year. They may be a little different from each other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that 19 machines for 240 days is the value of work of €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...that statement that her best scientific advice and her experience on the international panel is that we should immediately cease all extraction of peat. That would be one way to immediately save 5 million tonnes per annum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: I can speak about the programme with which we engage. The restoration programme for next year is €5 million, and subject to the known budgetary process, we are hopeful that funding will continue after 2020. We have earmarked 32 raised bogs for restoration as a priority, beginning with nine bogs next year. We hope the 32 bogs will store 28 megatonnes of carbon....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

...done a great deal of work in the context of the restoration of raised bogs. I stated what is set out in the national plan to restore raised bogs in three cycles of six years. I mentioned the €5.4 million Living Bog project, which has been in operation since 2016. I also mentioned the work of the Department separately on State-owned lands within the raised bog SAC and NHA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: I will start. For the €5 million earmarked in budget 2020, that overall programme involves 36 bogs, which are the designated raised bog sites. That is what I will focus on. This will begin with nine bogs next year. Over the whole programme, it is hoped to be able to store is 28 megatons of carbon. In the bogs next year, it would be hoped to store 6 megatonnes of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. The plan to restore the 1,800 ha of protected raised bogs in 2020 was referred to in connection with an additional budget allocation of €5 million. How much carbon is envisaged being stored over that five-year period? Does the Department use any other agencies to support its planting or the work it does on rehabilitation, restoration or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We have gone into another world now about the 53 raised bog SACs and how we will save Ireland with them. That is not what the habitats directive was about. It is not helpful when the likes of the NPWS are trying to resolve issues on the 53 raised bog SACs. The National Parks and Wildlife Services, NPWS, has called them the best bogs in the country. When one has a bog that is functioning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: The national restoration programme for raised bogs is for both the SACs and the NHAs. As stated earlier, we have 53 raised bog SACs and 75 raised bog NHAs. There is a proposal to reconfigure the NHA network arising from a 2014 review. The Bill to give effect to that, the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016, is going through the Oireachtas at present. The proposal is that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

...peatlands and took steps to protect these sites through designation as special areas of conservation, SACs, and natural heritage areas, NHAs. The national peatlands strategy has run since 2015 and has as its vision statement "to provide a long-term framework within which all of the peatlands within the State can be managed responsibly in order to optimise their social, environmental and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: On budget 2020, as I said in my presentation, the allocation for next year is €5 million. The idea behind the programme is to restore 32 bogs. We hope to begin restoring nine bogs next year. When the 32 bogs have been restored, it will result in the storage of around 28 megatonnes of carbon. The nine bogs earmarked for restoration next year will help maintain a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

...years is thanks to the permanently waterlogged conditions that prevent the complete decomposition of organic matter. In Ireland, peat soils are the largest carbon store containing an estimated 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon. Total global carbon dioxide CO2 emissions from degraded peatlands currently amount to a third of the total emissions from the land use, land use change and forestry,...