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Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...incorporation scheme, but I have people on to me about the irony of us incorporating or chopping up our own straw in the harvest time and now importing straw from the UK. The comparison has been made with when we stopped harvesting peat for environmental reasons but found ourselves, on the other hand, importing it from eastern Europe. With regard to the climate and environment, which is...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...do. I spoke to a farmer the other day who said he was going to plant a hectare but he was told that he cannot. I asked him why and he said it was because the new EU rules are that there cannot be a depth of peat of more than 30 cm, or it is over. This is where we have to make sure we do things right. If we want to talk about doing things differently for water quality, we should talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the sustainability side, Ms Jany-Roskova is aware of the nature restoration law, which is thankfully on hold at the moment in Brussels. If a farmer in the west of Ireland was producing beef on a peat-type soil that under the nature restoration law should be rewetted, would that be viewed as not sustainable and would that farmer be at a disadvantage under this?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Cian O'Callaghan: ...320 applies that was carried out more than 7 years before the commencement of this subsection. Subsection (3) of section 320 refers to: ... unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction development in any of the following circumstances: (a) where no permission for the development has been granted and the development commenced after 15 November 2004; (b) where...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (10 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...Liquid fuels and natural gas used as a propellant are chargeable to Mineral Oil Tax. Natural gas used for all other fuel purposes is subject to Natural Gas Carbon Tax. Solid fuels, including coal, peat and peat products, are subject to Solid Fuel Carbon Tax. Mineral Oil Tax comprises a non-carbon component and a carbon component, also referred to as carbon tax. Natural Gas Carbon Tax and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of peat imported into Ireland from 2016 to 2024, broken down by country, in tabular form. [13776/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., Automation and Processing for Commercial Mushroom Producers €235,069 The 2023 Scheme of Investment Aid for Commercial Non-Primary Producers in the Mushroom Sector and for Peat Replacement by Commercial Mushroom Producers. €1,045,087 2023 Mushroom Promotional Support €1,010,000 EU Producer...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has ongoing communication and interaction with the European Commission in relation to GAEC2 – Protecting Peatland and Wetlands. Our collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has come to a conclusion with the publication of the technical report. This report (Technical report on methods and tools in support of the creation of an “IACS...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to transition to a climate neutral economy by no later than 2050. In respect of the Midlands, the Government continues to support workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the ending of peat extraction by Bord na Móna through both the National and EU Just Transition Funds. The National Just Transition Fund, established in 2020,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...to favourable conservation status. This is done by restoring the water table to a level where the bog is wet enough to support the growth of sphagnum moss, which assists in the formation of peat. It is important to note that the restoration of peatlands, including bogs, at an adequate scale can help reduce flooding in their catchments, as their capacity to hold water and release it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish the drainage status of grassland peat soils in Ireland further to the findings of a study (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12134/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...a few hundred acres in the eastern part of the country. I am speaking about small farmers in the west of whom 70% have gone organic. They do not have the quality of land. They have land with peaty soil. Anyone who knows the directive knows it does not affect top-quality mineral soil and good quality land. It affects land with peaty soil. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...to meet our increased tillage acreage targets and a need to reduce the national herd to meet the Government's own 2030 climate targets. I previously did an assessment of converting our three peat-fired power plants to 100% biomass. That would displace 600,000 tonnes of carbon each year from beef production and generate €465 per ha for farmers with a price of carbon at €100...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Deputy is right about fossil fuel subsidies. They are a critical issue right across the world. We have looked to withdraw them in a variety of areas. An example might be our change in the use of peat in power generation. There are further measures, especially in the transport sector. That is an issue the EU is currently considering and we must work within the European context on this....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to a climate neutral economy by no later than 2050. In relation to the Midlands region, the Government continues to support workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the ending of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. The National Just Transition Fund, established in 2020, continues to support local and community-led...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...sensitivities which can require the exclusion of areas from applications to avoid negative effects on the environment. The overall area of land approved can be impacted by, for example, Blanket peats, Curlew breeding buffer areas or Freshwater pearl mussel Top 8 catchments. Further information and guidelines can be found on my Departments website at gov - Regulation, Forest Health and...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...gas emissions and the vast majority of that comes from private, fossil-fuelled cars. Fossil fuels in this Bill are defined as light oil, heavy oil, liquefied petroleum gas, vehicle gas, coal, peat or peat briquettes. Fossil-fuelled vehicles mean light motor vehicles, heavy motor vehicles, motorcycles and aircraft fuelled by fossil fuels and flights, which are a major contributor to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Jack Chambers: ...risks to CAP payments, as the Deputy has mentioned. Balance has to be found, as I said earlier, and there has to be flexibility in the delivery of rewetting targets, including the use of former peat extraction sites. It has to be explicitly voluntary when it comes to landowners. That is why the Government's position is that the State itself will lead on rewetting, using State lands to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...farmers are under attack from every direction. They are under attack from the new climate change Bill, which is loading up carbon taxes on them; the Government's shutting down their ability to harvest peat and instead importing peat from Latvia; and the Government's investment in the Mercosur agreement, which would bring more Brazilian beef into the European Union, thus displacing beef...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul Kehoe: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are peat type lands now excluded from afforestation, including the native tree area scheme due to concerns of carbon emission which are being farmed intensively within the dairy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8694/24]