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Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...issue. Economic growth should not mean environmental degradation and damage. It is possible to have economic growth and ensure the environment is well cared for. I come from a rural area and peat is important to the people of counties Longford and Westmeath, whom I represent, as it is in rural areas throughout the country. I emphasise that in no way does this motion or the Labour...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...from. I welcome the allocation of €31 million as a start to help the midlands area where more than 2,000 people are employed in Bord na Móna and many are employed in the offshoot industries and are engaged in harvesting and producing peat and supplying it to the ESB. This is only a start. The midlands region has most to lose in the shift away from fossil fuels and people had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (11 Jul 2019)

Willie Penrose: The Minister of State is aware that communities in rural Ireland will undoubtedly be affected most by changes in agriculture, the increasing carbon taxation and the closure of peat bogs, particularly in the midlands. There are many such bogs in Derrygreenagh, Boora, Derrahaun, Cullenagh and across the midlands. The recent announcement on the Moneypoint plant in west Clare was instructive...

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 Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (23 Mar 2017)

Willie Penrose: ...failure of her Department to put in place an appropriate preservation order when it became aware of toghers in the ancient bog at Mayne, Coole, County Westmeath; the reason unlimited extraction of peat is allowed to continue despite her Department's full knowledge of the importance of this ancient bog road; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14602/17]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Willie Penrose: ...will not come into effect until 10 March. We had to wait a number of weeks to get the date. The budget did nothing to increase the living-alone allowance or provide an increase to the fuel allowance, with the cost of coal, peat briquettes and many other forms of fuel increasing. On the eve of the budget, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, and his...

Topical Issue Debate: PSO Levy Review (18 Jun 2014)

Willie Penrose: ...PSO levy has had a serious impact on a series of end users of electricity. The levy was introduced by the government in 2000 to ensure that Ireland had a percentage of indigenous electricity generation, peat resources principally from Bord na Móna, and also to encourage development of green energy in the form of wind and biomass. It was also introduced to have security of supply...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (1 Dec 2009)

Willie Penrose: Question 312: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the co-firing targets including the three peat burning stations in the Midlands and the likelihood of reaching the 30% target set out by him by 2015; if he will give assurance that homes material, such as woodchip, would be sourced for these stations indigenously rather than being...

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (1 Dec 2009)

Willie Penrose: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an assessment has been carried out as to when the supply of peat for the manufacture of peat briquettes will run out; if it is Born na Mona's intention to cease the production of peat briquettes; if so, the steps he will take to replace the important part of our Irish heritage; and if he will make a...

Labour Services (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...the Labour Party, was a most objective vice chairman of Bord na Móna. During a very difficult period in the mid-1990s, he assumed the role of chairman and made some very difficult decisions about peat-fired power stations, including that in Bellacurrig in the Minister of State's constituency. Stations were closed and jobs were lost but Mr. Nugent took tough decisions for the greater...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (7 Apr 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...the expansion of the REFIT scheme to include a 12% per KwH feed and tariff for the use of CHP biomass systems; his position on the introduction of a REFIT tariff for co-firing of biomass and peat burning power stations; the way he will support the introduction of co-firing while ensuring that the generation companies do not retard the biomass matter by engaging in uncompetitive raw...

Social Welfare Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 Dec 2005)

Willie Penrose: ..., but we want those on social welfare to be compensated for the huge increases in fuel costs over the past year. The fuel allowance will still not buy a bag of coal or even the great Bord na Móna peat briquettes that we used to have. I am inclined to laugh at the media and I do not pass too many remarks about them but I have read that thousands are better off staying on the dole after a...