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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to transition to a climate neutral economy by no later than 2050. In respect of the Midlands, the Government continues to support workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the ending of peat extraction by Bord na Móna through both the National and EU Just Transition Funds. The National Just Transition Fund, established in 2020,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...to favourable conservation status. This is done by restoring the water table to a level where the bog is wet enough to support the growth of sphagnum moss, which assists in the formation of peat. It is important to note that the restoration of peatlands, including bogs, at an adequate scale can help reduce flooding in their catchments, as their capacity to hold water and release it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish the drainage status of grassland peat soils in Ireland further to the findings of a study (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12134/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...a few hundred acres in the eastern part of the country. I am speaking about small farmers in the west of whom 70% have gone organic. They do not have the quality of land. They have land with peaty soil. Anyone who knows the directive knows it does not affect top-quality mineral soil and good quality land. It affects land with peaty soil. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Denis Naughten: ...to meet our increased tillage acreage targets and a need to reduce the national herd to meet the Government's own 2030 climate targets. I previously did an assessment of converting our three peat-fired power plants to 100% biomass. That would displace 600,000 tonnes of carbon each year from beef production and generate €465 per ha for farmers with a price of carbon at €100...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Deputy is right about fossil fuel subsidies. They are a critical issue right across the world. We have looked to withdraw them in a variety of areas. An example might be our change in the use of peat in power generation. There are further measures, especially in the transport sector. That is an issue the EU is currently considering and we must work within the European context on this....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to a climate neutral economy by no later than 2050. In relation to the Midlands region, the Government continues to support workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the ending of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. The National Just Transition Fund, established in 2020, continues to support local and community-led...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Mar 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...sensitivities which can require the exclusion of areas from applications to avoid negative effects on the environment. The overall area of land approved can be impacted by, for example, Blanket peats, Curlew breeding buffer areas or Freshwater pearl mussel Top 8 catchments. Further information and guidelines can be found on my Departments website at gov - Regulation, Forest Health and...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...gas emissions and the vast majority of that comes from private, fossil-fuelled cars. Fossil fuels in this Bill are defined as light oil, heavy oil, liquefied petroleum gas, vehicle gas, coal, peat or peat briquettes. Fossil-fuelled vehicles mean light motor vehicles, heavy motor vehicles, motorcycles and aircraft fuelled by fossil fuels and flights, which are a major contributor to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Jack Chambers: ...risks to CAP payments, as the Deputy has mentioned. Balance has to be found, as I said earlier, and there has to be flexibility in the delivery of rewetting targets, including the use of former peat extraction sites. It has to be explicitly voluntary when it comes to landowners. That is why the Government's position is that the State itself will lead on rewetting, using State lands to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...farmers are under attack from every direction. They are under attack from the new climate change Bill, which is loading up carbon taxes on them; the Government's shutting down their ability to harvest peat and instead importing peat from Latvia; and the Government's investment in the Mercosur agreement, which would bring more Brazilian beef into the European Union, thus displacing beef...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Paul Kehoe: 368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are peat type lands now excluded from afforestation, including the native tree area scheme due to concerns of carbon emission which are being farmed intensively within the dairy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8694/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Turbary Rights (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...conscious that turf cutting activity could potentially have a disproportionate impact on commonage scores and especially if the commonage is scored as one field and there is a high level of active peat cutting and associated works. This is why, together with the co-operation project teams, a protocol was developed for the co-operation project teams to ensure turbary and non-turbary areas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2024)

Pippa Hackett: ...different approach while remaining within the confines of the regulations from the European Commission. I am not sure if the Deputy is condoning planting on special protection areas, SPAs, on deep peat or in pearl mussel areas. These are the areas that have been removed for absolutely genuine and proper reasons. We cannot reverse out of where we have moved to. We have seen the legacy...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the progress of his Department implementing the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7871/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...get money for it but that also has to be taken into account. We need to value that in some way. Something else which we did not do earlier was on carbon farming. The Senator said he was cutting peat. At the moment farmers do not get anything for their salt marsh or their peat bogs in terms of carbon sequestration but that must come in, in order that it is possible for farmers to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...needs to be said. There are still many households with no central heating. Census 2022 figures showed that over 21,000 households had no central heating. There is still a high dependency on peat, including turf, as the main source of heat in the homes of almost 68,000 households. This is higher, at over 28,000 incidences, among households whose occupants are over the age of 65....

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Michael McDowell: ...and Galway. It built a wind farm on the land it leased, with a considerable number of wind turbines and enough capacity to power 30,000 homes. As a result of the construction, it appears that a peat slide took place in a gully about the length of the distance from this Chamber to Kildare Street. I have seen this. The peat slide polluted an adjoining river heavily, causing serious...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Fitzmaurice: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail, in tabular form, the peer reviewed research reports which prove that native woodlands sequester more carbon on peat soils that conifers, taking account of the full life cycle of the timber used in construction, etc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7668/24]

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