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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (15 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to peat extraction, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no involvement in its regulation. 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 Environment. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (15 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to peat extraction, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no involvement in its regulation. 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 Environment. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (15 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to peat extraction, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no involvement in its regulation. 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 Environment. Following the...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Leddin: I would like to address the use of peat as a growing medium in the horticulture industry. The court case in 2019 which removed the exemption from planning permission for peat extraction is having, and will have, a significant impact on the industry. I thank representatives of the sector for highlighting this issue. Theirs is a very important industry. It provides employment and a safe,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Mr. Seamus Dunne: I thank Mr. Callanan and the Senator. It is something we are very conscious of. We are moving away from planting on peat. That is well documented. However, we have a lot of legacy forests that are on peat. We have come through quite an exercise over the past two years under Project Woodland, where we developed a vision. We had a deliberative dialogue which was like a...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (28 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Revised peat extraction controls were introduced under the Planning and Development Regulations 2005 in July 2005 to ensure compliance with EU requirements on environmental impact assessment. The regulations generally exempt peat extraction below a threshold of ten hectares from the requirement for planning permission. However, there are exceptions where the peat extraction would have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: As part of the National Peatlands Strategy, a Review of the use of Peat Moss in the Horticultural Industry was published in September 2020. On foot of a recommendation in the Review, I established a working group, which includes representatives from relevant Government Departments and State Agencies, Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations and industry stakeholders to examine the issues...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Ossian Smyth: I take it that the question refers to a consent system for peat extraction. Commercial 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 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There has been a history of widespread non-compliance with this dual consent process, with many...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...and enhance capital investment available to horticultural producers. On 7 September 2020, the Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform published a report on the review of the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry. The report was prepared by an inter-agency working group following on from the submissions received in response to the publication of an issues paper on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...must not undermine this function. Consideration must also be given to EU environmental law and the State Aid Guidelines when it comes to the afforestation of sensitive habitats such as peatlands or wetlands. As mitigating climate change is a central objective of the afforestation scheme it is imperative that the loss of carbon from organic soils through any proposed future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Progress: Discussion (30 Jan 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

...transport and one third in roads. Real gains can also be made in cycling and walking, two areas which also deliver co-benefits in terms of health and human connectivity. We must clarify an issue on peat. If I understand the views expressed by Professor Fitzgerald and the Citizens' Assembly correctly, we should not only end subsidies for peat but also stop burning peat within perhaps...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (20 Oct 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that, further to his press release of May 2010 announcing the ending of peat extraction on 31 raised bog SACs but referring to continued application of the derogations on other peatland SCIs, that peat extraction activities for domestic purposes can continue without ministerial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Our new forestry programme has made changes regarding where trees can be planted. Anything with a peat depth of more than 30 cm is excluded from our current forestry programme. Many areas which would have traditionally been forested many decades ago are no longer eligible because our understanding from the research and evidence about the contribution to emissions reductions has...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Raised Bog Habitats Growth (6 Mar 2014)

Jimmy Deenihan: Active raised bogs are acid, peat forming, rainfall fed bogs, with a water level generally higher than in the surrounding areas and dominated by bog mosses (Sphagnum species) which are the main peat forming species. The principal peat forming bog mosses require water tables over, at or slightly below the bog surface for most of the year and water levels rarely drop more than 20cms below the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (27 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to peat extraction, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has no involvement in its regulation. 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 Environment. I continue to engage...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (23 Sep 2009)

John Gormley: ...of 21 September 1999, in Case C-392/96. The measures also resulted in the withdrawal of further legal action against Ireland in Case C-294/03. Under the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 peat extraction was exempt from the requirement for planning permission in the case of: (a) a new or extended area of less than 10 hectares (b) a new or extended area of 10 hectares or more,...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...regulations is to ensure better quality and more efficient fuels will be available on the market. Low smoke ovoids are a suitable cost-efficient alternative to other types of high polluting coal, peat and wood logs in terms of heat delivered per cent cost. Given recent research which highlights a greater dependence on solid fuels by those in energy poverty, the risk of long-term...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...action is taken, Ireland will be short 260 MW of electricity in 2022 and 2023. Why has this happened? The Government - in other words, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - has pandered to the Green Party, closing peat power stations such as Lough Ree. Bord Gáis customers face a 12% rise in gas and a 10% in increase in electricity prices. There have been something like 17 announcements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Mr. Niall Curley: That is exactly it. Only 20% of the target for agricultural peatland can be covered by something other than agricultural area. That means forestry or peatland forestry or peat extraction. Only 20% of the target can come from Bord na Móna peat extraction areas, so the majority of the target must be met by agricultural peatland farms. As Deputy Fitzmaurice stated, it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: This is clear evidence of tokenism rather than real environmental action. An ideological pursuit by some of the Minister's colleagues to try to eliminate the use of peat for horticultural activities has resulted in a situation where peat is being imported. We also face the very real prospect of jobs, such as those in the mushroom sector, being exported. We could lose a vibrant part of the...