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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...context of the extensive engagement she had, I presume those she met raised with her the concerns that exist regarding the significant area of land that is ineligible, particularly when it comes to peat soils. The latter removes a large chunk of the west of Ireland from consideration. We have obtained various maps from the Department to show where each of the restricted areas is located....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...need to see that map. The response to a parliamentary question I tabled on the matter indicated that it will be published. I do not see how that map can show the vast areas of land that include peat soils. Did the restriction relating to peat soils originate here or was it insisted on by the European Commission? We need to know. This is going to lead to significant costs for farmers....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an impact assessment was carried out by his Department with regard to the 30 cm peat depth requirement under the new forestry programme; if he is aware that this requirement has effectively disqualified significant amounts of land for afforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Nov 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 30 cm peat depth rule for afforestation under the new forestry programme is a requirement under EU state aid rules; if there is flexibility in how his Department can interpret this rule for the Irish context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49897/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline details of European forestry legislation on planting on peat and details of his Department’s policy on planting on peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39855/23]

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...reply that did not speak about commercial sale. On 5 April it categorically stated that "a regulatory provision will be made to prohibit the placing on the market, sale or distribution of sod peat". The reply went on to state that "persons ...[with] turbary rights ... will not be permitted to place it on the market for sale or distribution to others". The misinformation, which came on...

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

Claire Kerrane: ...increased the most; — two-thirds of households in the West and North West rely on home heating oil to heat their homes, which has doubled in price in the last year alone; and — some four per cent of households depend on peat as the main energy source to heat their homes, rising to nine per cent of rural households and to one in five households in the Midlands; acknowledges...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an update will be provided on the just transition plans of his Department for communities in which peat-burning stations have been shut down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10265/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (7 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...a community (details supplied) impacted by the move from brown to green; the investment that has been made to the community; the efforts that have been made to replace jobs lost by the wind down of peat production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60455/21]

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

Claire Kerrane: ...eligibility but the fact remains that the budget did nothing for the vast majority of workers and families who will struggle this winter. I refer to the mad situation whereby we are importing peat at rates never before seen. Some 40,000 tonnes were imported in the first seven months of this year alone. Will the Government tell the workers who were let go, almost overnight, from...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...livelihoods overnight. Those jobs have not been replaced. They and their communities really feel like they are collateral damage in the move from brown energy to green energy. To add insult to injury, peat production in Ireland has been stopped but peat is now being imported at record levels, with almost 40,000 tonnes, to the value of €6.7 million, having been imported in just...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...when bills have already been increased, energy poverty is on the rise and there are no affordable alternatives. We now have the situation, which would be laughable if it were not so serious, of peat briquettes being imported from Germany when peat production here is being wound down and jobs are being lost. The workers, families and communities concerned see peat briquettes being...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 289. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the importation of peat and coal briquettes to Ireland due to the wind down of production in Ireland in line with measures to phase out fossil fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20653/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of peat, peat and coal briquettes, wood briquettes and coal imported to Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [20654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 291. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of peat, peat and coal briquettes and coal produced here in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [20655/21]

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Claire Kerrane: ...? The idea put forward by Kieran Mulvey for the midlands to become an energy hub is exciting and we all welcome it, but a just transition for the many towns and villages that will be directly impacted by the early exit of peat is crucial. Entire communities, families and businesses depend on us to get this right and, unfortunately, time is not on our side.