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Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)

Feargal Quinn: ...more than we are achieving. I, therefore, ask the Leader to draw to the Minister's attention the opportunity to create jobs and reach our 2020 target. We are committed to reducing the amount of peat we use and must do so in the form I have described. There is money available to achieve this, but it has not been made available by the Minister to those who are calling for it.

Seanad: European Council: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Feargal Quinn: ..., for some reason. Ireland could become a world leader in the generation of electricity from wind and wave energy, just as it was once a world leader in the generation of electricity from turf and peat. It seems to me that it is utter madness that we are putting ourselves in hock to an expensive and increasingly scarce resource like oil when a cheaper resource is going to waste in the air...

Seanad: Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (6 May 2004)

Feargal Quinn: ...allowed other less favourably situated countries take the lead. Senator Kenneally talked about Denmark, for example, and Italy. In the 1930s we led the world in seeking to generate power from our peat resources. For many years, until economies of scale took over, peat-fired power generation played an important role not only in the economy, but in helping to develop many parts of the...