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

Michael Healy-Rae: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide all peer reviewed research reports his Department relied upon in defining what peat types are plantable under the new forestry programme; the reports that specify the differences between native woodland afforestation and conifer afforestation which support his Department’s position regarding same in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...meet people who would talk about forestry being an option. To be honest, nobody is talking about forestry now. When land comes up for sale now, there are restrictions with regard to the amount of peat that must be on it and all of that. There are many hurdles in our way now. It is impossible to plant. It is not attractive to plant. Anybody who thinks it is attractive is only codding...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Irish farming. They should remember we are the one crowd who stood up here and told the Government that what it was doing was madness when it went to shut down Bord na Móna. That is mad. We are selling briquettes and we are bringing in peat. It is completely opposite to what the Government told us would happen but it is happening. The same thing will happen with beef. The...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I was brought up to adore. We did not like Bord na Móna, we did not admire it, we adored it for the work it did and for the way people went out and drained the bogs, put down railway tracks and harvested peat. They did great work in bad times and with what we would consider bad machinery, if we look back at what they had to work with at the time in comparison with what is there now....

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., look at the folly of what is going on in Foynes, where we have mulch coming in from Brazil. There are thousands of tonnes of it and it must be transported up through the country to replace the peat we were producing ourselves. The Minister of State may shake his head because he is ashamed of that fact, which has made a lot of headlines in the last couple of days. I put down...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...who are forgotten by this Government. There are 17,000 of them. There are 6,600 employed directly and 11,000 indirectly employed in horticulture. They were completely forgotten about when the Government shut down the peat industry. It is not a good day for the people who have been allocated home help hours but that help is not arriving to them because it is not available. It is not a...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the horticultural industry until one day in here I started a debate about it. All of a sudden, everybody woke up and realised that the Government had completely forgotten about horticulture and peat was required in that very important industry. Anything that has replaced it since is not as good as what we had ourselves. The Government threw the entire industry to the wolves. Now that I...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...by €19.40, bringing the total carbon tax applied to €106.07; — on 11,000 kilowatt-hours of natural gas will jump by €16.95, bringing the total carbon tax to €92.62; — applied to a bag of coal (40 kilogram (kg)) will increase by 89 cents, bringing the total carbon tax applied to €4.90 per bag; and — applied to peat briquettes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the fact that coal and peat are some of the very few affordable ways of heating homes in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13745/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...insane situation. How can two member countries of the EU have totally different rules for this agricultural sector? The Minister of State is well aware of the current scenario concerning peat. I am sure she is ashamed that this Government has shut down Bord na Móna and our own peat processing, meaning that we are now importing peat from Latvia and briquettes from Germany....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...who want to plant or thin trees or for people who want to build access roads to forestries to take out timber. He has ensured people in the horticultural sector now have to import 4,000 tonnes of peat from Latvia. Some 200 lorries bring it to and from the port every time. The Minister should think of the carbon footprint, because he thought it was a good idea to run out of here one day...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...being told now? They are being told to reduce their herd. The Minister should not talk to me about what he has done for horticulture. I have already covered how businesses have to import the peat now that is so important to what they do everyday. The Minister should not talk to me about energy. We have seen what he has done in the programme in the Government has done with regard to...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...by Deputy Michael Collins in regard to the bales of briquettes, people thought it was a good idea to stop the production here of briquettes. Where is the carbon footprint on the labels of the peat being imported from Latvia or the briquettes being imported from Germany? Wake up and smell the roses. Some Members have spoken about a move to a four-day working week, everybody having...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...who smokes for different reasons such as psychiatric problems. I do not agree with the idea of taxing and taxing certain items. The Government has got it so wrong on certain issues. We are bringing in 4,000 tonnes of peat at the time - it is a well-known fact - but the carbon footprint of that is coming in from Latvia because we shut Bord na Móna. Our peat is staying in the...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...this is only tinkering again with the system. I welcome the gambling regulatory authority, which is an issue I have been raising a great deal. I raised the issue of horticulture when the peat industry had been shut down. What did this achieve only to show that the Government completely forgot about it because nobody in government realised what was going to happen when we needed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...action is taken, Ireland will be short 260 MW of electricity in 2022 and 2023. Why has this happened? The Government - in other words, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - has pandered to the Green Party, closing peat power stations such as Lough Ree. Bord Gáis customers face a 12% rise in gas and a 10% in increase in electricity prices. There have been something like 17 announcements...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...supply next winter? We must look at the Government's decisions to date and think about what we are doing here. Over the past number of days we have had the news breaking that 200 lorryloads of peat have been imported from Latvia because we have shut down Bord na Móna. It might seem like a small issue but it is a really big issue. The importation of peat briquettes from Germany...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...they see that a result of this will be chaos in the markets and in their work and home lives if they cannot be guaranteed an energy supply. One can look at simple things that have happened such as peat being imported from Latvia after people in Bord na Móna have had their jobs and way of life shut down. Bord na Móna played an integral role in Irish society. The result is now...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yesterday, people from the peat industry were outside. I was disappointed that the Minister did not go out to meet them. They are growers who say that their businesses are being adversely affected. I met people who have been involved in horticulture for decades. Their families are steeped in it. They wonder how in the name of God it makes sense that they must now get their peat from...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the climate. My goodness gracious me, but what it is doing is an absolute disgrace and I will rub the Government's nose in it again and remind it that it stopped us from making and selling peat briquettes in Ireland. The Government shut down our plants while telling us that it was fine for us to import briquettes from Germany and sell those German-made briquettes proudly. I continually...