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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...tractors need fuel. That leads me on to the carbon tax and the hit on fuel. It will be €19 of an increase on a 900 l fill of a tank of oil for the ordinary householder. I think it will be €1 on the bag of coal and 20 cent on peat briquettes. How much will the increase be at the petrol pump? The Government is very nice and has put it off until April. We will have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: ...meaning. I will lay out all my questions because different witnesses may want to answer them. From what I can gather, there are major problems in the horticulture sector with dual media, the peat in the soil, this season. Even with 30% peat in growing media, growing of plants is very poor and the grower and consumer are getting much poorer products. It will put growers out of...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Collins: ..., LNG storage infrastructure to ensure energy security for the State; — implement windfall tax levies on all energy production operations in Ireland and use the proceeds to offer households relief from crippling energy bills; — take immediate action so that the price of electricity is decoupled from gas to ease the burden on households and businesses; — urgently...

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

Michael Collins: ...that there is only one electricity grid in Ireland. It is operated by EirGrid and owned by the State. Today, 40% of Ireland's electricity is generated by gas; 40% by wind; 10% by coal; and 10% by peat, oil and solar energy. Another point worth noting is that the grid is largely constructed for fossil fuel usage. This means that it is not capable of handling large volumes of renewable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: ...that we grow ourselves and that we are then importing it says a lot about the way this country is going. Sadly, it is grinding our country to a halt in many ways. Are the reports that Irish peat was leaving Ireland true, and if so, was any of that peat Bord na Móna peat?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Bord na Móna has exported absolutely no peat since then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Has it exported any peat at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I am asking the status of getting Irish peat to Irish growers to allow realistic transition. There has been no transition here, as such. There might be possibilities if there was time given and the problem is there has not. What is the status of getting our peat to Irish growers to allow this realistic transition to non-peat crop growing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: We have been talking for quite a while about three aspects of this matter: the environmental impact of transporting peat from the Balkans to Ireland, for example in the context of the lost quality of nursery stock product; the impact on Irish horticulture jobs; and the impact on Irish horticulture businesses. Is there any data on those areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Okay. What is the status of getting Irish peat to Irish growers to allow the realistic transition to non-peat crop growing?

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: ...the country. The truth of the matter is that people cannot afford to heat their homes. That is the bottom line. The price of home heating oil has shot through the roof, as has the price of coal and imported peat briquettes. The Green Party would like us all to wrap ourselves in silver wrap. It sounds mad, and it is, but that is what is happening in homes around Ireland. People cannot...

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

Michael Collins: ...carbon statistics would create a major revolution. I could support carbon labelling of imported goods, which might already be manufactured in this country. Where is the carbon labelling on the peat being imported from Latvia, which we are doing instead of using peat produced in Ireland? What is the carbon footprint of importing Colombian briquettes? Are there any concerns in that...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: ...people, and to stop being asleep behind the wheel and backing the Green Party in government until it takes us to the edge. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Deputies are outside today with the people affected by the peat moss crisis. Who created the crisis? It was the Government that is here. The poor people involved in forestry are going out of business. We are importing everything...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Michael Collins: ...and are willing to invest in this country. We need to put something in place. All we are doing is ruining things. People cannot sow forestry in this country. Because we cannot sow forestry, we have to import it. We have to import the peat moss from Latvia all over the country. We are the laughing stock of the world. The Brazilians must be falling over in stitches because of what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2021)

Michael Collins: ...am asking have already been asked. Deputy Leddin said this is not a matter of the green agenda, but it is certainly an extraordinary situation we find ourselves in with regard to both forestry and peat and the Green Party is at the helm. We see the disaster that is unfolding. Some Minister somewhere along the line is unable to resolve this unfolding disaster for many people in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Discussion (20 Jul 2021)

Michael Collins: ...; the nurseries are severely affected on the ground. I only have a few questions. Many of those I was going to ask have already been dealt with. My argument is that there was a withdrawal from peat without a plan being in place. The nurseries have been left flat-footed. They were given no time to adjust. When other businesses are affected, there is some kind of compensation package...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Michael Collins: ...In light of the 30% to 50% increase in costs and reduced quality, many growers believe that will go out of business. There is no transition plan for the industry. I ask the witnesses to explain why peat is being exported from Ireland while Irish growers have to purchase raw material from abroad at huge additional carbon footprint, which puts the Irish grower, especially small...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Michael Collins: ...petrol has gone through the roof? What will they do when people tell them they cannot get a bale of Irish briquettes, but they can get a German one? What will they do when people tell them they cannot get a bag of Irish peat moss at the nurseries, but they can get a South African bag at an extra cost? What will they do when people tell them they cannot fell or grow forestry, but they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implications of Climate Action Plan for Agricultural Sector: Teagasc (14 Apr 2021)

Michael Collins: ...50 cows or suckler cows, to what number will they have to reduce to comply with the regulations that are coming on stream? Would the witnesses be able to give us those answers? In addition, we discussed peat moss earlier. This is an absolute disaster. The new solution for Ireland is that if one cannot, one will not be producing anything, but we will import everything in through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Michael Collins: ...has been extremely vocal on this issue in the Dáil and elsewhere. I have read the reports prepared by the witnesses. I am shocked by the seemingly decimating impacts of the changes relating to peat extraction on the Irish horticulture industry. It is evident that many jobs will be lost and small and medium growers in horticulture will be made uncompetitive. All present agree with...