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- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)
Verona Murphy: ..., Food and the Marine how many of the 67 NTA licences have been planted and paid, and whether his Department has any plans to improve the attractiveness of the scheme by allowing black soil/shallow peat to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Is there any offset in relation to peat soils and what we are sequestering and then the importation of wood chip from Brazil in vast quantities? Is there any offset? Does anybody take into consideration where we stop one line - for instance in peat, never mind the wood chip? When we are importing peat to replace what we have stopped harvesting, is there a correlation within the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Are we winning in that regard? Would it be beneficial to us? Would we be seeing benefits by virtue of importing peat now and not harvesting our own? Is there a benefit for the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Verona Murphy: I am just talking about peat.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Verona Murphy: ...policy and decisions have made us more reliant on European and UK imports and, therefore, we are more exposed than we should be to events beyond our control. The Government has closed our own peat-powered plants. We have given the Government a proposal on the reopening of those facilities but it has, in the programme for Government, banned the exploration of gas off our coasts and we...
- Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)
Verona Murphy: ...poorly thought-out energy policies that have resulted in rising costs, coupled with the consequences of Brexit. These policies include shutting down energy production in Ireland and instead importing peat from eastern Europe, banning gas exploration and instead buying Russian gas abroad, and imposing carbon taxes on fuel and home heating oil and then applying VAT on the tax. These are...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Verona Murphy: ...than the increase of €13.50 referred to today. I hope that provision will be made to alleviate fuel poverty if the weather is very poor this winter. I suppose the Government's crazy climate policies are having some positive effects. For example, peat producers in Latvia are absolutely delighted with the behaviour of the Government. You would have to laugh if it were not so...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)
Verona Murphy: ...it wrong and being confused about the speeds they should be doing on a motorway. We are slowly making changes, albeit changes to our detriment. For example, we recently ceased the production of peat in Bord na Móna plants. Instead of producing our own peat, we are importing it, resulting in no overall impact on the environment, only money leaving the country and jobs being lost....