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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]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...conscious that turf cutting activity could potentially have a disproportionate impact on commonage scores and especially if the commonage is scored as one field and there is a high level of active peat cutting and associated works. This is why, together with the co-operation project teams, a protocol was developed for the co-operation project teams to ensure turbary and non-turbary areas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2024)

Pippa Hackett: ...different approach while remaining within the confines of the regulations from the European Commission. I am not sure if the Deputy is condoning planting on special protection areas, SPAs, on deep peat or in pearl mussel areas. These are the areas that have been removed for absolutely genuine and proper reasons. We cannot reverse out of where we have moved to. We have seen the legacy...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the progress of his Department implementing the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7871/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...get money for it but that also has to be taken into account. We need to value that in some way. Something else which we did not do earlier was on carbon farming. The Senator said he was cutting peat. At the moment farmers do not get anything for their salt marsh or their peat bogs in terms of carbon sequestration but that must come in, in order that it is possible for farmers to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...needs to be said. There are still many households with no central heating. Census 2022 figures showed that over 21,000 households had no central heating. There is still a high dependency on peat, including turf, as the main source of heat in the homes of almost 68,000 households. This is higher, at over 28,000 incidences, among households whose occupants are over the age of 65....

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael McDowell: ...and Galway. It built a wind farm on the land it leased, with a considerable number of wind turbines and enough capacity to power 30,000 homes. As a result of the construction, it appears that a peat slide took place in a gully about the length of the distance from this Chamber to Kildare Street. I have seen this. The peat slide polluted an adjoining river heavily, causing serious...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail, in tabular form, the peer reviewed research reports which prove that native woodlands sequester more carbon on peat soils that conifers, taking account of the full life cycle of the timber used in construction, etc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7668/24]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if peat lands excluded from the afforestation scheme in the new forestry programme can potentially be used for other farming purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his engagements with his Cabinet colleagues in relation to the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6947/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Verona Murphy: ..., Food and the Marine how many of the 67 NTA licences have been planted and paid, and whether his Department has any plans to improve the attractiveness of the scheme by allowing black soil/shallow peat to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to environmental sensitivities, such as habitats and species (including NATURA sites, Freshwater Pearl Mussel and Hen Harrier, Breeding Curlew, open habitat birds, Annex I habitats), high nature value farmland, peat soils, hedgerows, water quality (including fisheries sensitive areas, waterbody status, acid sensitive areas), archaeology, landscape, and local sensitivities.” ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for new development to be rolled into a substitute consent development. Some of us opposed it very strongly. This is particularly the case, for example, sometimes regarding unauthorised peat farms and unauthorised quarries, etc. Perhaps the Minister of State could ask the officials to clarify whether - I offer my apologies, because it is late and I am jumping between three different...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of the EU Nature Restoration Law that proposes to categorise all drained agricultural peat soils as degraded systems in terms of access for products grown on such land to the EU market and eligibility in the long-term for EU Common Agricultural Payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...electricity to power more than 2.5 million homes. Alongside expanding our renewable energy capacity, the Plan includes measures aimed at strengthening our grid and phasing out the use of coal and peat. This Government is also taking a number of significant measures to reduce our agricultural emissions. Measures in CAP24 include reducing our chemical nitrogen fertiliser use,...