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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Robert Troy: ...questions. Considering our dependency on fossil fuels is at 86% and 75% of that is imported, will either of the witnesses indicate, at the time Ireland was permitted to use industrially harvested peat, what percentage of our energy was derived from our peat power stations? Energy security for Ireland, as both speakers have been at pains to say, cannot be dealt with in isolation. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Robert Troy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the findings of the working group established by his Department to look into the peat supply issue to the horticultural sector in the wake of the peat harvesting cessation on Bord na Móna bogs; and the way in which he plans to deal with this issue in the short-term to protect those involved in the horticultural...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (13 Jul 2021)

Robert Troy: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the burning of peat briquettes will cease. [37173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (3 Mar 2021)

Robert Troy: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish findings by his Department on the recommended future uses for the peat plant sites at Shannonbridge, County Offaly and Lanesborough, County Longford. [10977/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (3 Feb 2021)

Robert Troy: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the burning of peat briquettes will cease. [5271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Robert Troy: 375. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for commercial peat harvesting subsequent to the judicial review into two Statutory Instruments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53667/19]

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: ...the Bill, I will address the context on the ground. Fianna Fáil is extremely concerned by the announcements by the ESB and Bord na Móna of major job losses at the Moneypoint coal plant and peat-fired plants. The recent An Bord Pleanála decision regarding the operations of the west Offaly power station is also putting more jobs at risk. This summer saw the closure of the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting (7 Mar 2017)

Robert Troy: 426. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to put a preservation order in place to prevent the extraction of peat from the Moyne Bog, Coole, County Westmeath, at which an ancient road structure has been discovered. [11854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Cases (28 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the judicial review concerning peat extraction from bogs here and the loophole in the legislation that is allowing companies to do so. [10443/17]