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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The actions in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) which may be considered as ‘the hay meadow measure in ACRES' are Low Input Grassland (LIG) and Low Input Peat Grassland (LIPG), as well as the late meadow bonus (LMB) which is available as part of those actions. The figures requested are presented in the below table: Action No of applications approved...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I have provided a table of import figures which are provided by the Central Statistics Office and refer to - Peat, including peat litter, whether or not agglomerated (CN code 27030000). This description includes all types of peat and does not differentiate between peat used for horticulture or that used for heating. This description also includes briquettes. Peat agglomerates also includes...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., Automation and Processing for Commercial Mushroom Producers €235,069 The 2023 Scheme of Investment Aid for Commercial Non-Primary Producers in the Mushroom Sector and for Peat Replacement by Commercial Mushroom Producers. €1,045,087 2023 Mushroom Promotional Support €1,010,000 EU Producer...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has ongoing communication and interaction with the European Commission in relation to GAEC2 – Protecting Peatland and Wetlands. Our collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has come to a conclusion with the publication of the technical report. This report (Technical report on methods and tools in support of the creation of an “IACS...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...led by Teagasc titled “Geospatial drainage status detection mapping of organic rich soils for National Inventory Reporting and policy support needs”. This much needed project will select and classify lowland peat soils on grassland across several sites, roll out technologies, create on the ground validation and monitoring datasets and conduct a SWOT analysis of these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...sensitivities which can require the exclusion of areas from applications to avoid negative effects on the environment. The overall area of land approved can be impacted by, for example, Blanket peats, Curlew breeding buffer areas or Freshwater pearl mussel Top 8 catchments. Further information and guidelines can be found on my Departments website at gov - Regulation, Forest Health and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...for agriculture and all land types depend on a wide variety of factors. Some lands such as grasslands on mineral soils remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere compared to grasslands on peat soils. The types of animals grazing lands will also contribute to the overall emission profile for each farm enterprise which can be significantly different. My Department when assessing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...soils, the amount that will be offset by the removals from the growing trees and other environmental considerations. The table below highlights the main reports used to inform the decision on peat as outlined in Irelands forestry programme for the period 2023 to 2027. EPA 2023. National inventory report Greenhouse gas emissions 1990 – 2022. Reported to the United...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...conscious that turf cutting activity could potentially have a disproportionate impact on commonage scores and especially if the commonage is scored as one field and there is a high level of active peat cutting and associated works. This is why, together with the co-operation project teams, a protocol was developed for the co-operation project teams to ensure turbary and non-turbary areas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department commissioned an independent expert to carry out a report on peat supply for the horticulture industry in Ireland. This report identified a number of recommendations to alleviate issues with regards to supply of peat which are being considered across government. My Department also commissioned experts to provide focused guidance to those wishing to achieve regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...amount that will be offset by the removals from the growing trees. Under the Forestry Programme (2023-2027), the afforestation of organic mineral soils in agricultural use can take place where the peat depth is 30 cm or less. The decision to use this depth threshold is based mainly on the National greenhouse gas inventory report (EPA, 2023) and taking into account research funded by my...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: If lands are excluded from the afforestation scheme due to the presence of peat, farming activity can continue as long as that activity satisfies any legal or scheme requirements for other non forestry schemes. Exclusion from the afforestation scheme does not automatically exclude an applicant from joining another Department scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...payment are being prepared and you can be assured that once these applications are received they will be processed promptly. There are no plans to amend the scheme in relation to black soil/shallow peat.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to environmental sensitivities, such as habitats and species (including NATURA sites, Freshwater Pearl Mussel and Hen Harrier, Breeding Curlew, open habitat birds, Annex I habitats), high nature value farmland, peat soils, hedgerows, water quality (including fisheries sensitive areas, waterbody status, acid sensitive areas), archaeology, landscape, and local sensitivities.” ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (13 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and significant benefits for the protection of biodiversity. As such the Regulation does not intend to stop agricultural land use. For the delivery of the NRL ambitions for drained agricultural peat soils, the Irish Government have committed to utilising public lands as far as possible enhanced by voluntary supports for farmers who wish to contribute to the targets. The voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There are no records detailing the amount of foreign peat-based products that have been sold in Ireland in each of the last five years. The only data that is available is from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on imported peat and peat products. Import figures from the CSO refer to - Peat, including peat litter, whether or not agglomerated. This description includes all types of peat...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...investment in projects to deal with this uncertainty, with the National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory seeking to provide a more accurate picture of soil emissions and removals; the RePeat project to provide greater resolution peat soil maps; and two European Innovation Projects, FarmPeat and FarmCarbon, who are working with farmers at farm level to develop innovative solutions, with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Scheme along with several European Innovation Partnership (EIP) research projects, to provide the required data for the development of future policy options in this area. An example is the RePEAT project working to accurately identify the extent of organic soils under agricultural management. Investment in European Innovation Projects in the Midlands is developing a results-based...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...investment in projects to deal with this uncertainty, with the National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory seeking to provide a more accurate picture of soil emissions and removals; the RePeat project to provide greater resolution peat soil maps; and two European Innovation Projects, FarmPeat and FarmCarbon, who are working with farmers at farm level to develop innovative solutions, with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The afforestation scheme in the previous forestry programme outlined the types of land suitable for afforestation in the document ‘Land Types for Afforestation (2017)’. A maximum peat depth of 50cm was applied, for certain site types only. This maximum peat depth did not apply to fertile sites classified as Grant Premium Category 2 (GPC 2) to GPC 12, nor did it apply in all GPC...