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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...risks to CAP payments, as the Deputy has mentioned. Balance has to be found, as I said earlier, and there has to be flexibility in the delivery of rewetting targets, including the use of former peat extraction sites. It has to be explicitly voluntary when it comes to landowners. That is why the Government's position is that the State itself will lead on rewetting, using State lands to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...this. Such balance has been found in the inclusion of an emergency break for unforeseen events in the agricultural sector, flexibility in the delivery of rewetting targets, including the use of former peat extraction sites and an explicitly voluntary approach for landowners. An assessment of condition under the habitats and birds directives is entirely different from an assessment of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...use, forestry and the marine. There will be legally binding restoration targets for a broad suite of marine and terrestrial habitats including grasslands, woodlands, sand dunes, rivers, lakes, peatlands and other wetlands. This will inevitably have policy, legislative and sectoral implications across many Departments from housing and planning to energy, forestry, fisheries and water....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Horticulture Sector (14 Dec 2021)

Jack Chambers: The data requested by the Deputy is set out below. Further to Parliamentary Question 133 of 30 November 2021, exports of peat to Northern Ireland are included in the data for the Rest of the World. Table A below sets out the data for Northern Ireland. The data for 2021 to date is not included in the table as some of the data relating to this product which has been received by CSO is...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (1 Dec 2021)

Jack Chambers: ..., to ascertain the accuracy of this data. Once a reply is received from these traders, and the data is either validated or corrected, it will be available for publication. Table A : Exports of peat 2016 - 2020. The CSO publishes domestic extraction of peat on an annual basis as part of the compilation of Material Flow Accounts. The results for 2020 are not yet published. The figures for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (1 Dec 2021)

Jack Chambers: The data requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Table A : Imports of peat by country 2016-2021

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Horticulture Sector (30 Nov 2021)

Jack Chambers: ..., to ascertain the accuracy of this data. Once a reply is received from these traders, and the data is either validated or corrected, it will be available for publication. Table A : Exports of peat 2016 - 2020.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Natural Gas Grid (18 May 2021)

Jack Chambers: ...region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, companies and communities. A significant package of supports has been put in place in the midlands for the transition away from peat-fuelled power. This includes €20 million for the midlands retrofitting project, €108 million for the Bord na Móna peatlands restoration project, €25 million for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Peat Products Import Data (17 Feb 2021)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 and 3 together. The data requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. There are no data available yet for 2021. Table A: Exports of Peat and Peat Products 2018-2020 Year Peat Peat Peat Products Peat Products Exports Exports Exports Exports ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...and submissions. I will begin with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. How many meetings has it had with the Department of the Taoiseach in recent months specifically on peat workers and the recommendations of the Oireachtas committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I refer to the Government's climate action plan. Dr. Renou-Wilson mentioned that rewetting is low-hanging fruit and a mitigation measure that must be applied to all publicly-owned peatlands wherever feasible but it is not sufficient to stop peat extraction or ban unsustainable use of peatlands. Does she think the Government's plan goes far enough in this area?