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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 May 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ....  Secondly, and in recognition of the important role that specific results-based actions can play in achieving key environmental targets, included within the AECM general entry scheme is a Low Input Peat Grassland (LIPG) option, which will reward farmers for raising the water levels in grassland fields on peat soils that are adjacent to or located near to Raised bogs. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Turf Cutting (11 May 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Simon Coveney: My Department is currently progressing draft Regulations under the European Communities Act 1972 that will establish a new regulatory regime in respect of large-scale peat extraction. Under the new regime, the Environmental Protection Agency will be required to carry out an environmental impact assessment as part of its examination of licence applications for existing and new peat extraction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018) See 4 other results from this debate

...a long-term vision rather than something we could do overnight. Moneypoint has been down but we have had really good wind, good interconnection, neither of the interconnectors were down, and peat has been part of the fuel mix. If all of those were to go overnight I do not think any of us would be as comfortable about security of supply. We should, however, start planning in that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (18 Dec 2018)

Richard Bruton: I am acutely conscious of the impact of the recent redundancy announcement on Bord na Móna’s employees. The challenge during this decade of transition out of peat is to continue to support those communities and jobs associated with the peat business and to identify and develop new opportunities for employment, particularly in the Midlands. Bord na Móna is considering...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...D and added subsets into the mushroom food as part of this imagination and innovation. The sector faces wipeout unless the Government urgently brings in legislation to introduce a resumption of peat harvesting on some selected bogs and I deliberately use the term “some selected bogs”. I understand the challenges and they are important but the reality is that shipments of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: .... The Government is committed to a just transition in the Midlands region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the end of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. The Government approved funding of €108 million for Bord na Móna’s large-scale peatlands...

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Ryan: ...fossil fuel import dependency has grown significantly, due to the overall increase in energy use together with the decline in indigenous natural gas production at Kinsale since 1995 and decreasing peat production. Over the period 1990 to 2008, production of indigenous gas decreased by 81%, and peat by 54%, while the use of renewable energy in contrast increased by 221%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)

...The majority of people in this room aged over 50 will not live to face the consequences. However, for those of us who will be forced to confront this possible future, we must act now. Ireland has a long history of peat consumption, with many people across the country heating their homes with turf and consuming energy via peat-powered power stations. I come from a rural area in western...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (11 Jan 2022)

...to be cracked. That nut will need to be cracked if we are to get to the kinds of targets that my colleague, Dr. Styles, will talk about in a moment. I agree with the Deputy that the volume of peat extraction that would be required to provide a medium for the Irish horticultural industry would be relatively small as compared with the volumes of peat that were extracted and mostly...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Dáil] : Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jul 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...I. No. 118 of 1998), and Air Pollution Act, 1987 (Marketing, Sale and Distribution of Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 2011(S.I. No. 270 of 2011) shall not include domestic sale of firewood, turf and peat.". The Minister alluded to this matter this morning. This amendment seeks to remove from provisions regarding fuel bags set out in the Act the sale of firewood, turf and peat. Like the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Production (18 Nov 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Alex White: The fuel used in the coal-fired generators in Moneypoint and in the peat-fired generators in the Midlands is a matter for the relevant operators and not a matter in which I, as Minister, have any role or function. I am advised that ESB has conducted some limited trials on biomass co-firing at Moneypoint and will continue to monitor developments in this area. Notwithstanding this, I am advised...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Production (17 Sep 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...has been a part of the fabric of life for decades since the establishment of Bord na Móna and the building of the ESB power stations across the county. One third of our land mass comprises peat so it is no surprise that peat harvesting for energy generation was focused there. Offaly experienced less emigration than many other counties in the 1950s due to the number of jobs available...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (29 May 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...Longford and Boora in County Offaly. Great families were sustained by the work of Bord na Móna which will now be lost. The company is to close 17 of its 62 active bogs immediately and is due to end peat harvesting in 45 more within seven years. Up to 500 jobs will no longer be available. What plans does the Department have for peat workers, people working in peat factories,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: The commissioning of an independent expert to work with all suppliers to ascertain the level of horticultural peat stocks available to growers is one of the key actions that I announced earlier this month in supporting horticulture growers who are dependent on peat. I understand the importance of delivering this action quickly.  As the Deputy can appreciate, there are procedures...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (19 Jul 2016)

Denis Naughten: ...report from the company on the issues raised and am informed that the matters referred to by the Deputy cut across two specific areas. With regard to rail transport, I am advised that Bord na Móna transports peat to its three peat-fired power stations via its rail network. This work is carried out in accordance with the standards laid down in respect of the work methodology. Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (28 Sep 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Fund.The Government is committed to a just transition in the Midlands region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, enterprises and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the end of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. My Department continues to support 56projects in the Midlands region through the National Just Transition Fund.The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I call for a debate in the House on the madness that is going on with the importation of wood chippings from Brazil, peat from Latvia and anything else from any other part of the world that we feel like, rather than using our own peat and allowing farmers to cut down their own forestry to be used here. We need an urgent debate in this House. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (16 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Government is committed to a just transition in the Midlands region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the end of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna.The Government approved funding of €108 million for Bord na Móna’s large-scale peatlands restoration project...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (28 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: My Department is currently developing an open call which will be seeking proposals for the development and implementation of an EIP Locally-Led Pilot Scheme targeting climate action on peat soils. This will build on our successful range of locally-led schemes already in operation. The scheme will have the objective of reducing emissions from peat lands under agricultural management and...

Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Paddy Burke: ...the refusal were as expressed in the White Paper, Delivering a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland — The Energy Policy Framework 2007 — 2020, which envisages that electricity generation from peat in existing peat burning power stations will reduce over time and, as expressed in the National Climate Change Strategy 2007-2012, supports the co-firing of biomass with peat in existing...