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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...June 2020 following heavy rain on that day and in the preceding days. An area of upland blanket bog, including an area of adjacent forestry plantation, moved downhill as a result of the liquefied peat, vegetation and trees continuing from its source to follow the course of a tributary of the Diffagher River downhill to Lough Allen. Some of the landslide material was held up at an area...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...if they produce it. I believe that is substantially dealt with by that high rate of tax relative to the main rate of corporation tax at 12.5%. The only other domestically produced fossil fuel is peat. It was either produced by individuals for private consumption or by Bord na Móna, which is already committed to cease peat production by 2028. Along with Bord na Móna, some...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...in carbon tax in the coming year will be spent. There is no transparency across government in regard to how it is spent. The Government raises carbon taxes on diesel, petrol, marked gas oil, natural gas extraction and kerosene, solid fuels, coal and peat, liquid petroleum gas and fuel oil. A breakdown of these categories is set out in the recently published ESRI document. The Central...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (28 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of carbon tax and whether it has reduced the sales of peat-related fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16694/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (28 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the savings to customers by the proposed removal of the public service obligation in respect of the peat supply contract between Bord Na Móna and Edenderry Power Station, County Offaly, at the end of 2015 and to West Offaly Power Station and Lough Ree Power in Lanesborough, County Longford, in 2019; the proposals...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Seán Fleming: ...ESB quoting a figure in the order of €300 million passed on to its customers. Generating stations, which are the subject of the public service order obligation, are exempt from the carbon levy. Peat generating stations, such as those owned by Tynagh Energy and Aughinish Alumina, do not earn any carbon credit windfall profits and as such will not be liable to any levy. This is logical -...