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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

John Clendennen: As per the last census, there are some towns in my constituency of Offaly with up to 40% of households still relying on peat turf for home central heating. That is ten times the national average of 4%. These families are caught up in the crossfire between climate policy and home heating regulations. For many, moving from turf to a full retrofit is simply not financially feasible or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Simon Harris: ...Most sectors of our economy are seeing a decrease in emissions, including agriculture and transport. Our electricity is now cleaner than ever before. Last year marked the first year in which no peat was used for power generation, which was a symbolic end to a high-carbon era. It reflects the structural transformation under way in our energy network. Wind energy provided 48% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

...when the conditionality standards are being set. We negotiated with the Commission for our own GAEC 2 standard in order that we could take account of national requirements for the protection of peat soils without having to duplicate that in the GAEC standard. We asked for more subsidiarity in setting our GAEC standards, including the ability to derogate from GAEC 2 on the basis that...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025) See 9 other results from this debate

Réada Cronin: So the Minister is not going to seek it. He also mentioned peat extraction. It was reported in the news last week that the EPA claims that illegal extraction is widespread and causing damage to biodiversity in local areas. It is also having a knock-on effect on smaller extractors. The increase in illegal extraction will have an impact on people who are doing it legally. It seems...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Rural and Community Development Matters: Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (2 Jul 2025)

William Aird: .... We hope to have Bord na Móna in here. It is very important that Bord na Móna do likewise. There was a lot of infrastructure in our bogs over the past 50 and 60 years because of the amount of peat that was taken away from our bogs. There were ordinary railway lines within those for moving the peat into the factories. They are in situ and I ask Bord na Móna to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Jul 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...SEAI domestic retrofit programmes are available to all households wishing to undertake energy upgrades where the programme criteria are met, including those reliant on solid fuels such as coal and peat for heating. Grant supports under the part-funded schemes are available for installing heat pumps in place of fossil fuel heating systems and, in recent years, a range of measures have...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025) See 3 other results from this debate

..., and yes, we can have native species. It is a mixture we need. One of the issues the council is very clear on - I am not saying it has happened - is that if any of the windblown happened on deep peat soils, we are very opposed to replanting on deep peat soils because it releases the locked-in carbon. Each site needs to be considered and developed appropriately with, as I said, the...

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Victor Boyhan: ...out to Paris within days of being picked. Irish-produced mushrooms are going to London to Sainsburys and all of the other stores. It has not been easy at a time when there are controversial issues in respect of peat and challenges in respect of the growing medium for mushrooms. I commend Teagasc on the very significant work it has done and for the pilot schemes and research. Senator...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Planning, Approving and Delivering Transport Infrastructure Projects: Discussion (11 Jun 2025) See 2 other results from this debate

John Clendennen: I will come back in now in the interests of saving time. I cannot understand why we do not put more money into the rehabilitation of roads over peat foundations. Essentially, we are throwing good money after bad because of the limited life span. Where the work has been done, it has been exceptionally good and the feedback is very positive. I encourage the NTA to do more in that area. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...momentum. It is important to recognise those efforts across Irish society. We achieved almost a 7% reduction in emissions in 2023. We are undergoing a renewables-led energy transformation. Peat is gone, coal is on the way out by the end of this month, and renewables are now the backbone of our power mix. Electricity generation from renewables has increased fivefold since 2005. A...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electricity Generation (10 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...from the SEAI show that Ireland's energy related emissions in 2024 were down 1.3% on 2023 and are at their lowest level in over 30 years with electricity sector emissions down 7.5%. Ireland removed peat fired electricity generation in 2023, and is on course to stop burning coal for electricity generation this summer. Notwithstanding power generation decarbonisation objectives and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...nearly 50%, yet emissions are lower today than they were then. Few countries have achieved this under such rapid growth pressures. We are in the midst of a renewables-led energy transformation. Peat-fired electricity generation has ended, coal is being phased out, and renewable energy is now the backbone of our power system, providing an estimated 40% of our electricity in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...-led projects which are implementing innovative plans to support the transition to a low carbon economy across a range of activities in the wider-Midlands region, following the cessation of commercial peat extraction. In 2024, €4.2 million in carbon tax revenue contributed towards the funding of projects. The National Fund closed in December 2024. For 2025, the carbon tax revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Department proposed to use the Teagasc soil and subsoils map for the implementation of the Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) 2 rather than using the Department-funded new Irish Peat Soils Map; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (29 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...ensure that we continue to make progress on reducing emissions from land use by the improved management of organic soils. The quality of our water and biodiversity are also affected by how we manage our peat soils. At farm level, Ireland's flagship €1.5 billion-euro agri-environmental scheme ACRES, contains approaches to facilitate peatland restoration. ACRES has facilitated an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Kenny: 515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of peat land designated as areas of natural constraint land; and the number of hectares in each category. [27619/25]

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Gogarty: ...again and our rivers and lakes could be clean, but the Government needs to make it happen rather than stand in the way. As well as spreading nitrates, we have overgrazing, undergrazing, unsustainable peat extraction, although I love the smell of a turf fire as much as anyone else, the introduction of invasive species and overfishing. Let us be balanced, though. Residential and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...parcel identification system, LPIS. With that, we set a baseline figure using the Hammond Teagasc map from 2009 as the most accurate way of doing that. This was a baseline figure of at least 50% peat in the LPIS for it to come in under GAEC 2. That brought in some mineral soils - about 100,000 ha - but if we did not have that and if there had been any peat in the LPIS, it would have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133, 142 and 144 together. The subject of planting forests on peats soils is not black and white. Forests planted on peat soils can contribute to climate, biodiversity and timber production. This is a fact. I am not in favour of planting on deep peat sites where there is a net carbon emission or planting important peat habitats, blanket bogs, raised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...this Government's thinking on climate and nature. The Minister of State told the Seanad during statements on forestry on 29 April: I and my officials in the Department will look at planting more peatland. Farmers want to plant peatland. Farmers do not want to plant their green ground because they have worked so hard to get the bit they have. They broke their backs and bones to make...