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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...threat to our food security. It will mean an increase in the cost to the consumer and to the housewife. The Government does not have any regard for that. Who will take up the slack? Is it going to be like the peat and the briquettes from Latvia and Germany? Are the South Americans, the Brazilians who are cutting down forests, going to supply the market? We have produced food to such...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...? We are all under the same sky. Are more people going to be left to starve as over 750 million are starving in different parts of the world? Is it going to be the same story as the briquettes and peat moss, which we now import because we cannot produce them ourselves? At the same time, many farmers are sequestering carbon all over our country, more carbon than they emit. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since the Government closed Shannonbridge and Lanesborough peat power plants in the middle of the country, it has come to light that it has been importing woodchip from Brazil. As has been said already, it has been importing peat from Latvia and it also imported coal from Russia to keep the Tarbert plant going. Since Shannonbridge and Lanesborough were closed, the cost of electricity has...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...shame and disgrace to think that these fellows - and I have no problem in naming the Minister and his Green Party - who are purporting to advocate green policies and whatever else are happy to buy peat in other parts of Europe and bring it into the country on boats, from which smoke is whistling into the clouds. The peat is then offloaded with more machines, transferred to 200 lorries and...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...some other mouth when we need energy. Now we see where we are; we are drawing coal from Russia to keep Moneypoint going. We have to keep it going. We are drawing woodchip from Germany and importing peat from Latvia and other places. We see where we are now. I will finish on that note as I am cutting into another speaker's time.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...we need a carbon footprint label for the products on the shelves, including information on how they got there. It is totally and absolutely unfair. At the same time, the Government is importing peat from Latvia and briquettes from Germany. What is their carbon footprint? The Government put a working group in charge of the provision of peat for horticulture, which has recommended the...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Home heating oil has increased by 50% from 38 cent this time last year to 84 cent now. The Government is closing Bord na Móna, Shannonbridge and Lanesborough and 10,000 acres of bog are left in Littleton. We are importing peat from Latvia and briquettes from Germany. At the same time, a special case is being made for Romania because it relies so much on coal. It will be allowed to...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...talks about wind energy from turbines out at sea. We are ten years away from that. In the meantime, people must live and try to stay warm in their homes. We are importing briquettes and peat moss for the horticulture industry. We have no alternatives. However, the Taoiseach said the other day that two gas burning electricity generators are broken down at present and it is hoped to get...

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)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...against them at all - but it is clear to me they are pulling the strings in government. They ensured Bord na Móna was closed down six years before it was destined to close down. There was moss peat left behind in Bord na Móna in the middle of the country. The Government is saying there are alternatives for nurseries in Kerry and for the horticulture sector. We are not even...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...diesel engines in machinery, while we have to use the Euro 6 engine. We have to use AdBlue, which is troublesome. The Chinese are building coal-burning stations and we are closing our turf-burning peat stations in Bord na Móna. In normal times, outside of the pandemic, at any one time there are 7,000 aeroplanes in the sky. Are they going to be operated by electric batteries?...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (24 Mar 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the availability of peat (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13916/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...1940s. My own brother worked for Bord na Móna in later years. I know what the jobs mean to those people and to all the other people who work there. What will happen to the briquette operation and the moss peat? There was endless opportunity to continue that, as I understand it.

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...could have provided a future? They could have been there for an unlimited period. Where will people now get briquettes? We will import more coal from Poland, other parts of Europe or Russia. We had our own peat for many years in the midlands that could make briquettes but that market will go. The Government would have got VAT and other taxes from it but now people will get coal,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...500 people who have lost or are about to lose their jobs? All Bord na Móna turf cutting is to cease by 2025 or 2026. What provision is being made for jobs for these people, since there is still peat to be had and a need for it for people who use it to heat houses? The other concern that I have is about blocking drains, raising water levels and going back in history. In a place...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I heard on radio this morning that 17 jobs are to be lost at Bord na Móna fairly soon. I ask the Government not to, in line with its policy, close down these peat-burning stations and peat providers which provided briquettes and turf over the years. I ask the Minister not to focus his attention on the people who cut their own turf. They are worried he will extend the policy to stop...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the land because it is hardly fit for anything else. The other thing I am very hurt about is the notion in the Project Ireland 2040 document that we will not be able to burn any turf or peat after 2030. That is unfair to people cutting a bit of turf for their own fires. We have notions from some Deputies that it would be better to leave the turf in the bog. I can tell them that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: How worried are the witnesses about the 2040 plan? Farmers will have to meet these targets by 2030 and we will not be able to cut turf or burn peat. Are the witnesses worried about that? If we have to comply with the Paris Agreement, come hell or high water, will it hurt Irish farmers? I did not vote to accept the Paris Agreement because farmers will pay. The Taoiseach and the Minister...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., of course, be the people. At that rate of going, it will cost €1 billion a year to comply. We are told we will not be allowed to cut turf by 2030. The words used were to the effect that we cannot burn peat. We were told we would be better off to leave the turf in the bog but a lot of people in Gneevgullia, Kilcummin, Kilgarvan, Caherciveen, Killorglin and all the areas in...