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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will lift the restrictions on peat harvesting for 2021 to avoid a shortage of supply in 2021 and to reduce the further importation of peat from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (18 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: My statutory remit and responsibility as Minister does not include regulation of the harvesting or supply of horticultural peat. However, to assist in addressing the important issues around horticultural peat for domestic purposes, I set up an Independent Working Group under the Chair of Dr. Munoo Prasad. The potential of alternatives to the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (23 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: My statutory remit and responsibility as Minister does not include regulation of the harvesting or supply of horticultural peat. However, to assist in addressing the important issues around horticultural peat for domestic purposes, I set up an Independent Working Group under the Chair of Dr. Munoo Prasad. The potential of alternatives to the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: My statutory remit and responsibility as Minister does not include regulation of the harvesting or supply of horticultural peat. However, to assist in addressing the important issues around horticultural peat for domestic purposes, I set up an Independent Working Group under the Chair of Dr. Munoo Prasad. The potential of alternatives to the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry was...

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...document on the renewable heat incentive scheme before the end of this year, which will create demand for bio-energy crops in this country and will build up the capacity needed to convert these peat-fired stations from peat to biomass. The installation of solar panels across the midlands will not create jobs. We need to put in place a sustainable plan that benefits the local communities...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020) See 3 other results from this answer

Matt Carthy: 1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect the mushroom industry here, which has a farmgate value of €119 million and relies on horticulture peat, in view of the potential depletion of peat reserves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: My statutory remit and responsibility as Minister does not include regulation of the harvesting or supply of horticultural peat. However, to assist in addressing the important issues around horticultural peat for domestic purposes, I set up an Independent Working Group under the Chair of Dr. Munoo Prasad. The potential of alternatives to the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry was...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Apr 2011)

Pat Rabbitte: The Public Obligation Service (PSO) levy has been in place since 2001 and is the support mechanism for peat generation and the development of renewable electricity. The PSO also supports the output of two gas fuelled power plants built in 2005 to secure much needed generation capacity at the time. The levy is designed to compensate electricity suppliers for the additional costs they incur...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019) See 2 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, in conjunction with the ESB, EirGrid and Bord na Móna, continually examine the options available to the State to phase out coal and peat burning for electricity generation, and that the Department report quarterly to the standing committee. Deputy Bríd Smith's amendment, No. 30, is to insert the following after "the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (13 Jan 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: While peat is used for a range of purposes in the agricultural and horticultural sectors, my Department is not involved in the regulation of it's extraction. This is a planning process under the remit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) license process, under the remit of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Carol Nolan: There is no clarity, certainty or adequate sources when it comes to peat harvesting. There is no clarity on where the authority to change the planning law resides. Is it with the EU or the Government? There is no certainty as to whether the horticulture sector can survive going forward. There are no adequate levels or sources of peat, or rather there are, but people are banned from...

Live Register. (24 Feb 2005) See 1 other result from this debate

Jerry Cowley: Hundreds of jobs have recently been lost in Hennigans, Allergan and the Bellacorrick peat-burning station. If one considers the losses at Bellacorrick, approximately 1,000 jobs have been lost in the area in the past five years. By contrast, three new power stations are being developed in the midlands while the Bellacorrick facility is closing with the loss of more than 200 jobs. A recent...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Nov 2019) See 4 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...the following:"5. No order can be made under section 18A(5)(b) of the Act of 2000 prior to the publication of regulations by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government in respect of peat cutting and small scale peat extraction.".

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (28 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has proposals to amend planning laws to permit the excavation of peat for horticulture purposes in tandem with efforts to determine alternatives to the use of peat by the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52104/23]

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I am going on to a different remit of the Minister's responsibilities. Thousands of jobs in the horticulture sector are under threat due to the prohibition of peat harvesting on Irish bogs which have a landmass of more than 30 hectares. While this is not just the remit of the Minister's Department, her Department does hold ultimate responsibility for the use of bogs in this country. ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turf Cutting (19 Jan 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I take it that the Question refers to industrial scale peat extraction on sites over 50 hectares, carried out by commercial operators. I have no role in providing any supports for such extraction.   Industrial scale peat extraction is subject to a dual consent process requiring planning permission and, for sites over 50 hectares, an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) licence from...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (18 Sep 2018)

Denis Naughten: As set out in the National Development Plan, the Government intends that, by 2030, peat and coal will no longer have a role in electricity generation in Ireland. This is in line with Ireland’s commitments under the Paris Agreement and the National Policy Position which sets out a long-term vision of an aggregate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of at least 80% (compared to 1990...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (15 Jul 2021) See 2 other results from this answer

Brendan Smith: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the concerns of the mushroom and horticulture sector in relation to the harvesting of horticultural peat are addressed in view of the importance of peat for that sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38912/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...on a very important subject, that is, the proposal by his Government - Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party - with regard to its new year ban on the sale of all smoky fuels, including coal, peat briquettes, turf and what people would call "wet wood". I want him to clearly outline what exactly the is proposing to do, the legislation, if any, it is proposing to bring before the...