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Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...at job creation, we see an Offaly where there were just four visits by the IDA in 2022. If we are serious about creating jobs in a county that has seen a great deal of injustice with the ending of peat harvesting, we need to get real. Government needs to set real targets for the IDA for the economy in the midlands and what is expected there. The rural planning system, no more than the...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...Loss have not been met with universal approval despite the glow and spin that has been given to them. That also comes within the context of fears around the mandatory rewetting of drained peat farmland and the annihilation of many farmers' capacity to sustain a livelihood on the land or to pass a farm onto the next generation. Only two weeks ago, I hosted a cross-party briefing on...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...and 3,000 full-time jobs in rural and coastal communities. One has to wonder why it is that organisations such as the National Inshore Fishermen's Association, NIFA, have to make their argument repeatedly and loudly to Government and why it is there are such delays in responding from the Government's side. Is Government of the belief and view that inshore fishermen can simply be...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...contract changes by the buyer. This may be of value to horticultural operators, in particular. They continue to struggle with the many crises affecting their sector due to the lack of effective peat alternatives. We hope to see some movement in addressing and preventing the risk of loss and deterioration being transferred to the supplier and the refusal of written confirmation of a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (18 Jan 2023)

Carol Nolan: 1841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity of peat and peat products that have been exported to Japan from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1409/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Carol Nolan: There is no clarity, certainty or adequate sources when it comes to peat harvesting. There is no clarity on where the authority to change the planning law resides. Is it with the EU or the Government? There is no certainty as to whether the horticulture sector can survive going forward. There are no adequate levels or sources of peat, or rather there are, but people are banned from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Carol Nolan: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the measures his Department is taking to support alternative sources of peat for the horticultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56660/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Carol Nolan: 624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the measures that his Department is taking to support alternative sources of peat for the horticultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56661/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...we need flexibility and common sense the most. It is like throwing a heavy weight to a drowning person instead of a rope. Burden after burden is imposed on the Irish people. Regulations on the banning of heat and energy sources such as peat, and even wood, are being pursued with reckless vigour with little thought for people who are struggling to heat their homes this winter, despite...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...the extension of eligibility for fuel allowance. Fuel poverty is real and should shame us as a so-called First World developed nation. Why has there again been no shift with regard to our approach to peat or reclaiming bogs as indigenous sources of fuel and energy for our power plants that were shuttered by a short-sighted and rigid approach which I completely opposed at the very...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...now have a Government that appears oblivious to any evidence that does not support its own ideological biases. A hundred years after our independence we are, it seems, as dependent as ever on the importation of fuel, not to mention peat. This is completely at odds with what people in the past fought for. The programme of the First Dáil in 1919 stated clearly that the people of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (4 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the use of Just Transition funding to subsidise the importation of peat moss or the adaptation of facilities to mill peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (10 Mar 2022)

Carol Nolan: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revise the decision to reject the recommendations of the Working Group Report on Horticultural Peat given the increased need for food security following the Ukrainian crisis and its impact of food supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Carol Nolan: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that he chose to set aside the recommendation of the report of the Working Group on Horticultural Peat with respect to the need to gradually phase out the use of peat by 2030 and with a complete cessation date by 2035; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Carol Nolan: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct his Minister of State to reconvene the Working Group on Horticultural Peat to in order to provide those who contributed to the Working Group consultation process an opportunity to understand the reason that the recommendations of the report have been set aside in favour of a series of ten actions outlined...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Carol Nolan: Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to reconvene the working group on horticultural peat? The sector is in deep crisis at present. We must ensure the group has a chance to come together again. The Minister also needs to explain the reasons why the main recommendations the working group made were ignored. One of the recommendations was the phasing out of peat up to 2030. It has been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (23 Nov 2021)

Carol Nolan: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expedite the publication of the report by the working group on horticultural peat; the measures being adopted by his Department to save the horticulture sector from collapse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57004/21]

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

Carol Nolan: ...in my constituency closed down. Another closed in Lanesborough, County Longford. Those closures happened at a time when we needed those power stations. We are seeing inferior quality peat coming in from thousands of miles away, as far away as Latvia, and that is increasing our carbon footprint. It makes no sense. The Government is losing people who want to do the best by the...