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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and Ireland’s Ancient East by diversifying the local economy and providing new employment opportunities for workers and communities that were heavily dependent on peat. This will be delivered by Fáilte Ireland and marks the beginning of the regenerative tourism development journey in Ireland, as we work towards a low carbon economy. ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Martin: ...development in the Midlands. The focus of the EU Just Transition Fund is to diversify the local economy by providing new employment opportunities in tourism for workers and communities that were heavily dependent on peat production and peat-fired power generation, ensuring a just transition to a low-carbon future. Fáilte Ireland is currently in the consultation phase of this project....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (28 Jul 2020)

Catherine Martin: ...within 3 cycles, with the first cycle operating for the duration of the Management Plan. This programme is being accelerated due to the announcement in Budget 2020 of €5m from the Carbon Tax Fund for peatlands restoration. This funding will allow for restoration measures to be undertaken on approximately 1,800 hectares on up to 9 raised bog designated sites across 7 counties in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Investigations (14 Jul 2020)

Catherine Martin: ...findings of concentrated geophysical and hydrological investigations indicate that any turf cutting there would require monitoring for an estimated period of a year to assess the level of risk of peat failure (bog burst). In advance of any turf cutting taking place in this area, consent would also be required from the relevant public authority and consultation would have to take place with...

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

Catherine Martin: ...on climate change take workers' employment into consideration and create decent, high value jobs as a function of their implementation. No one can be left behind. Some 1,700 workers are directly employed in the peat extraction industry, while a further 2,500 are employed in support roles. There have already been job losses in the sector in recent years and the Government's response...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statutory Instruments (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Martin: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment carried out before signing SI No. 4 of 2019 European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Peat Extraction) Regulations 2019, of the impact of the regulations on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands in line with the national peatlands strategy. [5883/19]

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Catherine Martin: ...and reducing energy poverty. The Government needs to take real climate action to protect citizens from unnecessary deaths from cold and bad housing; to transfer State bodies such as Bord na Móna from exploiting peat to long-term, high-quality jobs in providing high-quality, warm and nearly zero energy homes; to launch a long-term plan to retrofit housing across the State, taking...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (27 Mar 2018)

Catherine Martin: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that An Bord Pleanála ruled in 2013 that the peat extraction at a location (details supplied) is unauthorised and that the High Court recently confirmed that finding in a case taken by the peat extraction company against An Bord Pleanála; and the steps his Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (27 Mar 2018)

Catherine Martin: 660. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the ongoing archaeological monitoring that has taken place during each of the past ten peat extraction seasons along the​ routes of two 3,000 year old ancient trackways discovered at Mayne, County Westmeath in 2006 (details supplied). [13869/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (20 Mar 2018)

Catherine Martin: 1097. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of preliminary reports and final reports for archaeological investigations on peat​ excavation​ sites received by her Department in each year since 2012; and the number of reports of each type still outstanding for each year​ in tabular form.​ [12957/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Bord na Móna (1 Jun 2017)

Catherine Martin: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if in establishing a new regulatory regime for large scale peat extraction he will ensure that this new regime is consistent with the ruling of the European Court of Justice in Commission v. Ireland C 215/06 particularly in view of the impermissibility of granting retrospective consent for a development requiring...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for his apparent intention not to provide for public participation in his plan to exempt large-scale peat extraction from the requirement to obtain planning permission; and the way in which this decision not to consult the public is consistent with Ireland's obligations under Article 8 of the Aarhus...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Bord na Móna (23 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the changes to the planning status of large scale peat extraction will be designed to ensure that there is no effective retrospective legalisation of extraction undertaken without environmental impact assessment. [24059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Bord na Móna (23 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if changes to the planning status of large scale peat extraction will be designed to ensure that the carbon sequestration and storage functions of peatlands, important to achieving the goal of carbon neutrality for the land sector, will be promoted in a cost effective manner. [24149/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 145. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to change the planning status of large scale peat extraction; and the public consultation he plans to undertake on proposed changes. [23699/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: ...country are indelibly linked. This is incredibly important for areas like the midlands, which currently has more than 3% greater unemployment than the rest of the country. The redirection of the peat public service obligation subsidy to the retrofitting industry could support more than 3,000 jobs, for example, with an average of 26 jobs per €1 million spent directly, indirectly or...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: ...not understand their value as natural and archaeological heritage, flood regulators and carbon sinks protecting our climate. We were not unique. Most European countries have damaged most of their peatlands. Some, such as the Netherlands, have gone from having enormous expanses of peatland to having almost no bogs left. Most other European countries long ago recognised the value of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Policy (7 Jul 2016)

Catherine Martin: ...the ruling of the European Court of Justice against Ireland in Case C-392/96; and the alternative steps she will take to protect these valuable conservation areas from destruction by drainage and peat extraction. [20156/16]