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

Timmy Dooley: Can I just hold Mr. Callanan on that? What is his thinking on that, where forestry was planted on peat soils? The requirement now is that if you fell that timber, under the grant system you must replant again with no grant. Does Mr. Callanan have any broader thinking about moving the farmers or landholders in that area towards a more sustainable forest and providing financial supports for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: .... Let us look at the evolution of this. Government, through Teagasc and others, encouraged the draining of land and planting on the worst bits of it. On raised bogs, where there is a scum of peat across land that cannot be drained, there is dóib buí coming in to meet it on the other hand. Dóib buí is soil that does not drain water and nothing grows on it but rushes....

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...strung up in that area we will never get to the solution. We must look at the potential opportunities along the western seaboard to serve rural communities. I accept that we need to move away from harvesting peat the way we did in the midlands, but there are massive opportunities from Donegal to Kerry in capturing offshore wind. The only point I would make to the Minister of State is...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...due to the associated short-term and long-term health impacts of this form of pollution; - the Government is preparing regulations on turf harvesting that will ensure that while measures are introduced to enhance air quality, they will not impinge upon traditional local practices associated with sod peat; calls on the Government to: - respond to the current crisis in energy markets as...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...to benefit all of us in the short to medium term with the likes of green technology and jobs in the green sector. We can look to areas with which I am very familiar, which have poor land and peat, and what is happening in the midlands. What is being done around a just transition is not perfect at all but there are people who worked on the bogs and looked like they were losing their jobs...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2020)

Timmy Dooley: ...in the midlands under the just transition programme. The programme is aimed at addressing the very significant economic impact of the decision of the State to move away from the burning of peat as our contribution towards the reduction in carbon emissions. The decision to invest €100 million in the midlands is a good one. It is the right decision for the environment and for...

Seanad: Aviation Industry: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Timmy Dooley: ...phase. There is another side, namely, the leasing business, which the Minister of State has talked about. Shannon was one of the cornerstones of aircraft leasing in this country through Guinness Peat Aviation, GPA, which went on to be a failed organisation. However, GPA left behind the seeds of very significant growth for that sector and was ahead of its time. As an entity it may not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2020)

Timmy Dooley: ...is being used, under the just transition fund, to pump money into areas of the midlands that have suffered and will suffer significant economic losses as a result of the ending of the burning of peat in that region and its impact on jobs. For a long time now, I have believed that a similar extension is required to include the Moneypoint region of west Clare. With more and more wind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...transition commissioner will have a bigger role than the one envisaged and a bigger secretariat and more staff will be required. We are talking about ending the extraction of turf and burning of peat for fuel generation today which touches on the coal industry in west Clare, but there are many other elements of our economy that will have to change significantly over the coming years if we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: .... To what extent does she think the work of a just transition commissioner should be extended beyond its current scope, which is principally in the midlands in respect of the end of the burning of peat for generating electricity? The ESB has reduced considerably its burning of coal in Clare, the constituency I represent. That was not expected to happen until 2025 but because there is...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...grants and incentives for retrofits, rooftop solar on farm buildings and initiatives to ensure a just transition. In respect of a just transition, Fianna Fáil is also extremely concerned by developments at the peat stations in the midlands and at the Moneypoint coal plant, where the Government seems to be willing to let jobs be lost rather than engage with workers before the losses...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (10 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: .... A key aspect of the report which was presented to the Government was a requirement for it to put a plan of action in place for places like Moneypoint or the midlands, where the extraction of peat will not happen any more. We have recommended the establishment of a task force to manage a just transition. However, the Government's action plan includes none of these commitments. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bituminous Fuel Ban (4 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I am concerned at the sudden raising of this issue of a smoky coal ban not being possible due to the threat of legal challenge from businesses because other fossil fuels such as peat and wood would be excluded. Surely the Government faces the threat of legal action whenever it makes a change to regulations affecting businesses. The Government must have known for years that initial action on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...a just transition for affected industries; and if a stand-alone and independently led task force will be established to facilitate a social dialogue with relevant stakeholders commencing with the peat industry. [28666/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan: Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (19 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...about the impacts of the actions that must be taken, there will be a significant effect on certain parts of the country. There was much talk here about the impact on the midlands of the non-use of peat in any aspect of the economy, not just on the electricity side of things. There is a target to end the burning of coal at Moneypoint by 2025, while the plan speaks about moving away from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I was thinking more in terms of any vegetation that would be useful for carbon sequestration and perhaps not a cash crop. I recognise that Bord na Móna will no longer harvest peat. I am sure that much of the company's land will never generate any income or activity in the future but there is a potential that some vegetation will grow, which will have some carbon capture over and above...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Obligation Levy Yield (6 Nov 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 833. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funds provided for the generation of electricity from peat within the 2017-2018 public service obligation levy for electricity customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45291/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Progress: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...FitzGerald spoke about a carbon tax. This is obviously an item we must look at. The carbon price floor has been examined. This is an action item we can look at. We can stop the subsidy to peat fire stations. These are three concrete things we have to take on board but there must be more. Mention was made of transport and heat. We need to get direction from the witnesses, as experts,...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Timmy Dooley: ...almost 10% of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions and 27% of our overall energy use, placing us as the nation with the third highest emissions per capita in the residential sector. We are still reliant on oil, coal and peat to heat our homes, despite there being much cheaper, more convenient and effective ways to do so. Fuel poverty is estimated to affect anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000...