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- Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)
Michael McDowell: ...and Galway. It built a wind farm on the land it leased, with a considerable number of wind turbines and enough capacity to power 30,000 homes. As a result of the construction, it appears that a peat slide took place in a gully about the length of the distance from this Chamber to Kildare Street. I have seen this. The peat slide polluted an adjoining river heavily, causing serious...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)
Michael McDowell: ...but on appeal the developers were granted planning permission for these developments. In consequence, Saorgus leased an 850 acre site at Derrybrien and construction commenced in October 2003. There was then a landslide of peat causing environmental damage to the site at Derrybrien when the contractors were constructing the wind farm. Huge amounts of peat were dislodged and slid across...
- Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)
Michael McDowell: I rise to speak about one thing only and that is the mushroom industry. It is the only thing I am concerned with. I oppose the export of Irish peat to the UK and other places for horticultural purposes there. They can get on with their John Innes compost or whatever else they have. I am only concerned with the mushroom industry and the people whose jobs are at issue in the mushroom...
- Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)
Michael McDowell: ...out whether gorse needles or something else can be ground up to produce a medium. There is no point in doing that kind of thing. We now have to have some derogation simply to produce extracted peat or mined peat, if you want to use that phrase, to supply that industry while we work on an alternative. I hope the Ministers in the various Departments, as it is a cross-departmental issue,...