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Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...-off who cause most emissions and who are best placed to do something about it, yet most Government policies seem to penalise the poor, like those on burning turf. The importation of briquettes and peat from mainland Europe should be of greater environmental concern than stopping one neighbour from selling turf to another in a cost of living crisis. In a lot of cases, we are talking...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...planning permission and another is going through the planning process. These data centres will use the same amount of energy annually as almost 1 million homes. Ireland has started to import peat from other European countries to meet demand here while stopping people cutting turf for domestic use. A couple of weeks ago, a ship carrying 400,000 tonnes of peat from Latvia in eastern...