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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of phytosanitary certificates issued by his Department for peat products exported for certain companies (details supplied) per year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of phytosanitary certificates issued for peat produced issued by his Department to non-European Union countries; the tonnage for each certificate per year between 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38841/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...on to people's bills? How much did the 200 MW add on to people's bills? How much will the 450 MW add on to people's bills? We can have these discussions here about megawatts and emergency generation and peat generation, but what people want to know is how much additionally, it will cost them.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: ...in the media by Ministers and Government representatives in the past fortnight. It has fuelled fear for many people in rural Ireland regarding what is going to happen to their ability to burn peat for fuel this winter. Looking at the Minister of State’s proposed amendment, there seems to be no real clarity as to what is happening. The final regulations are still to be agreed....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...taken must either have no impact on biodiversity or, preferably, enhance biodiversity. We have seen recent examples where trees were planted, which facilitates carbon storage, but they were planted on peat. Therefore, the biodiversity impacts were enormous but there was also an impact on carbon so when landslides happened there was a great deal of carbon emissions from the peat. We...