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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: ...Cavan, 96% of the road network is made up of local and regional roads. They carry significant volumes of heavy goods traffic and 92% of County Cavan is covered by drumlin soils, mountain and hill peats, which causes difficulty in maintaining a road network. The Minister talked about local authorities' own resources. The local authorities in Cavan and Monaghan have very limited...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business Supports (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: My Department has made funding available to the Midlands region, through the National and EU Just Transition Funds, to support workers, companies and communities affected by the ending of peat extraction for power generation by Bord na Móna and by the closure of the ESB's peat-fired power stations in the region. The National Just Transition Fund, administered by my Department and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...radical thing to try to figure out how we communicate complex messages and issues and get feedback from Joe Public on them. The just transition commissioner went into communities and talked with peat workers in Bord na Móna and businesses affected by the peat transition. He talked to affected community groups and there is a public participation network of community groups there, and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...of community rating, open enrolment, lifetime cover and minimum benefits is designated as part of the Health Insurance Risk Equalisation Scheme. 2.The building and the operation of two new peat-fired generation stations for security of electricity supply is designated for compensation under the Sale of State assets Scheme (State Aid Case number: SA. 37030). This Scheme was terminated in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Mr. Brendan Gleeson: I will explain the process of approval and perhaps reflect on where we were 20 years ago. We planted on deep peatlands 20 years ago. Our understanding of the net emissions factors from planting on deep peatlands is different now than it was then. Maybe it was not even a consideration then. Most of that was done between the 1950s and the 1980s. We are one of the few...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...available under the national fund by the end of 2024 while the EU fund will provide up to €169 million until 2027, so that is a longer-term transition for the region. That arises from the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation. I will certainly examine and reflect on what the Deputy has said. Just transition has to become just transformation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

...on their own land. As I said, we are supporting farmers in different ways through different schemes to manage their lands in different ways. There are two projects in the midlands related to farm peat and farm carbon and, again, it is working with farmers. We are getting information from that. It is certainly giving some confidence to farmers and helping them get over some of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...fossil fuel budgets for the energy systems that work for agriculture and therefore, to know whether we are on track, we need to know much fossil fuel we have, that is, the budget of oil, gas, coal and peat. As Mr. Ó Gallachóir said, while electric vehicle sales are growing, so are fossil fuel car sales and therefore, petrol and diesel sales are not falling. The third area...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The actions in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) which may be considered as ‘the hay meadow measure in ACRES' are Low Input Grassland (LIG) and Low Input Peat Grassland (LIPG), as well as the late meadow bonus (LMB) which is available as part of those actions. The figures requested are presented in the below table: Action No of applications approved...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and Ireland’s Ancient East by diversifying the local economy and providing new employment opportunities for workers and communities that were heavily dependent on peat. This will be delivered by Fáilte Ireland and marks the beginning of the regenerative tourism development journey in Ireland, as we work towards a low carbon economy. ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is saying but – there is a "but" – seven years is currently prescribed and that is consistent with the Statute of Limitations. Last week, we dealt with another section related to quarrying and peat extraction, where we can go past that date, which I think we all agreed would be a good thing. The proposal to extend it to 15 years would remove the impetus from a planning...

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,...