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Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: Derrinlough was chosen as the sole location for future peat briquette production and the new biomass briquette plant. The review of peat operations was prompted by the very significant decline in sales in the past few years. If the product is being produced but not sold and there is no capacity to sell it, it just sits there. That is not the way it should be. Increased competition,...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: .... In respect of workers being treated properly with dignity and respect, I share the Deputy's view completely. Deputy Martin will appreciate that Bord na Móna is phasing out the manufacturing of peat briquettes over the next number of years. There was the closure of the Bellacorick station quite a number of years ago, as well as a number of others in the midlands, as a result...

Shannon River Agency Bill 2016: First Stage (13 Jan 2016)

Enda Kenny: Third, there are 29 billion litres of water in flooded bogs at the moment and more will come onstream, literally, as Bord na Móna moves out of the milling of peat and that area. It has been clarified both by the European Commission and by the National Parks and Wildlife Service that in an emergency where people, their property or their livelihoods are affected, action can be taken. We...

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy says people are willing to co-operate. I take his point about the longer-term involvement of Bord na Móna in terms of peat cutting. The offers were there for alternative bogs to be made available so that people could either cut the turf themselves or have it cut for them. However, because of geography, it was not feasible to do that in many cases as there was not a suitable...

Written Answers — Departmental Lands: Departmental Lands (12 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: ...Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the original landowners have the right to re-purchase lands where agencies under his aegis purchased lands under the Turf Acts for the purpose of peat extraction and where those lands are no longer used for their original purpose by those agencies; if so, the impact of the rate of inflation upon such re-purchases; and if he will make a...

Corrib Gas Field: Statements. (4 Oct 2005)

Enda Kenny: ...-Royce Power Ventures and the other companies that showed an interest in the beginning in providing gas-fired electricity generating stations, one of which was to be sited at Bellacorick, where the peat power plant closed resulting in the loss of over 200 jobs? The serious statement by Rolls-Royce Power Ventures seems to have been put on the long finger. I do not hear any response from the...