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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (8 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Farrell: 161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts to support the horticulture sector with particular regard to those dependent on peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60240/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (8 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Browne: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide adequate supplies of peat to the horticultural industry following the publication of numerous reports on the matter. [61173/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

...with the directive, then I will have to be able to comply and be shown to comply. I have done life cycle analysis so all year round my company in the midlands grows leafy greens without soil or peat and use a limited amount of chemical pesticides. We will be an exemplar across Europe because we do not use fossil fuels to heat our glasshouse. Having looked at the life cycles, I see a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Dec 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ...NGCT does not apply to biogas used for non-propellant purposes such as heating. Finally, regarding solid fuel, the ETD mandates that coal is subject to taxation. Finance Act 2010 provides for Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) to apply to coal and also to peat and peat products. Like NGCT, SFCT is a “pure” carbon tax. Under SFCT law a partial relief is available for biomass...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...of soil-based emissions is important to deliver the reductions in the overall carbon balance and the Department has delivered several projects to address knowledge deficits in this area. The RePEAT project will help to accurately identify the extent of organic soils under agricultural management while investment in European innovation projects in the midlands will seek to develop a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to ensure the availability of horticultural peat for use in the domestic horticultural sector. [56644/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2022) See 32 other results from this debate

Jackie Cahill: .... Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to switch off their mobile phones. The purpose of today's meeting is to undertake an examination of the impact of peat shortages on the horticulture industry and, in the second session, to discuss the environmental impact of local emissions. In the first session, the committee will hear from Mr. Seamus Boland...

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: ...in the budget to other technologies to allow us to reach our 25% target without hindering our ability to produce. I am the Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I will refer to peat and our inability to issue licences for its harvesting. If we are going to meet the challenges of climate change, everyone has to bat together and be on the one...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ...NGCT does not apply to biogas used for non-propellant purposes such as heating. Finally, regarding solid fuel, the ETD mandates that coal is subject to taxation. Finance Act 2010 provides for Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) to apply to coal and also to peat and peat products. Like NGCT, SFCT is a “pure” carbon tax. Under SFCT law a partial relief is available for biomass...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Sorca Clarke: 798. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effects the continued shortage of peat is having on the mushroom and horticulture sectors; and the measures his Department is implementing to support these sectors. [59552/22]

Forestry: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...will tick a box but it will not solve the problem of planting. We still need planting for the timber industry because we cannot just run away from it. Figures were provided with regard to what trees and bogs or peat will absorb and put out, and what land will and will not do. Everybody needs to know we are on default figures because in fairness to Teagasc, that agency has started...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...Irish whiskey industry is still in its infancy. In County Longford, Lough Ree Distillery started out producing gin and it is producing its first whiskey now. In terms of GI, the distillery uses peat and the River Shannon in its processes. They are key parts of its product that cannot be created anywhere else. That is why GI is so critically important for such producers and why, in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (22 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ...for non-propellant purposes. Finally, regarding solid fuel, the ETD mandates that coal be subject to taxation.  Finance Act 2010 provides for Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) to apply to coal and also to peat and peat products. MOT is comprised of a non-carbon component and a carbon component with the carbon component being commonly referred to as carbon tax. The non-carbon component...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (22 Nov 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy may be aware, a landslide occurred on Shass Mountain, Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim on 28th June 2020. An estimated 160,000t of peat and vegetation moved downhill and spilled onto approximately 24ha of agricultural land (19 BPS claimants/landowners affected) and 12ha of forestry land (4 forestry contract holders affected). I visited the site in November 2021 and saw first-hand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022) See 9 other results from this debate

...and energy generation. Due to Ireland's relatively high rainfall and moderate temperatures, our soils are very favourable to the accumulation of organic matter and, consequently, carbon. Peatlands cover between 20% and 25% of the Irish landscape and contain two thirds of national soil carbon stocks. Pristine or undrained peatlands are long-term carbon sinks and sources of methane....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Carol Nolan: There is no clarity, certainty or adequate sources when it comes to peat harvesting. There is no clarity on where the authority to change the planning law resides. Is it with the EU or the Government? There is no certainty as to whether the horticulture sector can survive going forward. There are no adequate levels or sources of peat, or rather there are, but people are banned from...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...for them was that the 64% renewables on their bill is being charged at the gas price rate, that is, the highest rate. Whether a company is providing its electricity from gas, coal, briquettes peat, oil, wind or solar, customers are being charged at the highest rate by whoever produces the power. The Rural Independent Group brought this forward. Some 12 months ago we raised the crisis...

Energy Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...funds to final customers in a targeted manner; — note that the regulation outlines a maximum cap on market revenues of €180 ($180) per MWh for producers and intermediaries generating electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, biomass fuel, waste, nuclear energy, lignite, crude petroleum products and peat; — accept that the cap is one of the best ways to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Nov 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: ...for non-propellant purposes. Finally, regarding solid fuel, the ETD mandates that coal be subject to taxation. Finance Act 2010 provides for Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) to apply to coal and also to peat and peat products. MOT is comprised of a non-carbon component and a carbon component with the carbon component being commonly referred to as carbon tax. The non-carbon component of...

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...impact assessments were carried out in respect of 17,000 afforestation licence applications received by the forest service and that licences for plantations continued to be approved on, or near, peat soils and other high nature value areas. On the issues of planting on peatlands, we need to wake up to the scientific evidence. Experts, including from An Taisce, have repeatedly warned that...