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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Sales (11 Oct 2022)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue has responsibility for administering and enforcing Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) which applies to coal, peat, and peat products when they are first supplied in the State. There is no differentiation between different types of coal with regard to the rate of SFCT that applies. This means that smokeless, low smoke, and smoky coal all attract the same SFCT rate, currently €107.98...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...meeting, which has been a long session. The next public meeting of this committee will take place on Wednesday, 12 October at 5.30 p.m., when the committee will continue its examination of the peat supply in the horticulture sector. As there is no further business, the meeting now stands adjourned.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...is why keeping Derrybrien online is not particularly useful in terms of the energy crunch we face. Lanesborough and Shannonbridge created a lot of employment in the midlands for a long time but peat, by its nature, did not produce an awful lot of energy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022) See 13 other results from this debate

Mr. Niall Curley: For peat, it will mean rewetting to a certain extent 35% by 2050 and restoring 70% by 2050. Based on the annexes to the documents, restoration basically means rewetting. They do not give examples of measures other than rewetting to a certain extent. It does not mention what level, but rewetting is the main aim. The Commission made no distinction between restoration and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...landslide occurred on Shass Mountain, which is close to the village of Drumkeeran, on 28 June 2020 following heavy rain. An area of blanket bog and adjacent forestry moved downhill with liquified peat, vegetation and trees. Some of the landslide material was held at the Dawn of Hope bridge close to the origin of the landslide. However, a quantity of material overflowed the bridge and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Agriculture Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for Green Agricultural Pilots. This additional funding was allocated to enable the establishment of pilot, locally-led schemes targeting climate action on peat soils under agricultural management. In Budget 2021 €20m in additional funding was allocated for the creation of pilot environmental programmes. This was supplemented...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (4 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Government remains committed to a just transition in the Midlands region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the end of peat extraction by Bord na Móna.56 National Just Transition Fund projects have entered into a grant agreement with my Department, with €22.1 million in...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Carol Nolan: ...the extension of eligibility for fuel allowance. Fuel poverty is real and should shame us as a so-called First World developed nation. Why has there again been no shift with regard to our approach to peat or reclaiming bogs as indigenous sources of fuel and energy for our power plants that were shuttered by a short-sighted and rigid approach which I completely opposed at the very...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

...magnificent training facility as well for lots of trainers around the country, particularly those around the Curragh. Hundreds of horses are using this track every day. There are 80 miles of turf peat in all-weather gallops across 1,500 acres. It really is a strategic asset for Ireland. I know it is not performing financially the way we all want it to but it is important. It is the...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Regulations (20 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will oppose the proposed European Union regulation on land and peat restoration with reference to the biodiversity strategy and climate strategy as part of the European Union Council of Ministers, given that the consequences for Irish farming will be detrimental if this regulation is left in its present form...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...destroy every motor, every dishwasher and everything else. The Government will just turn it off. It thinks it can do this and get away with it. That is what it was inadvertently planning for by closing peat-fired power stations and everything else but I will not go into that debate. I refer to the whole situation of water in Dublin. I have nothing against the people of Dublin....

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard O'Donoghue: The cracks are showing, are they not? I see the Minister's party colleagues are on radio saying that they believe the peat plants should be opened up again to provide power for the people who put them here to protect them. We all want to protect the environment and the universe but we put our people first and we work for the future. What the Minister has done to the people of Ireland is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Policy (15 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Carrigy: ...and Ireland, we will be in major trouble. What will have to happen then is that businesses will shut down, and ultimately there is the possibility of a blackout in towns. Fuel can be sourced from peat that is on-site. There is 45 loads of it being drawn off the site every day. We have sawmills in the facility for chipping. We have an issue with ash dieback with which the Minister will...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...figure of €40 million was mentioned. What are these to be fuelled with? Is it diesel? Is that the case? What are we going to fuel these emergency generators with? We had a sustainable way of reducing carbon emissions. Fair enough, we had to move away from peat but we could have used biomass, biogas, anaerobic generation and all of the other means we could use to generate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (14 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...a very high penetration of variable electricity on the Irish grid, with increased storage capacity providing a low-carbon substitute for high greenhouse gas emitting power generation fuels, such as peat and coal. EirGrid has reported that a number of battery projects have been contracted via two mechanisms: SEM Capacity Auctions and DS3 Systems Services. There is currently approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...wind turbine maintenance in conjunction with Kerry ETB. Other programmes of interest to LOETB, which were referenced at the meeting as potential "start points" of French-Irish cooperation include: Digital Technologies; Sustainable Agriculture and the transition from Peat to Renewable Energy, to name but a few. The Wind Turbine Maintenance Technician (WTMT) Apprenticeship was launched in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022) See 3 other results from this answer

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: Coillte Teoranta (14 Jul 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., involving the replacement of non-native with native woodlands; - The Midlands Native Woodland Project which aims to plant approximately 4 million native trees across 1500 hectares of Bord na Móna land no longer used for peat production; - The Wild Western Peatlands Project which aims to restore and rehabilitate approximately 2,100 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and heathland...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...management of arable fallow. It will also touch on climate measures around water quality and reducing chemical nitrogen usage. Actions to be taken through ACRES will include catch crops, low-input peat grassland and the planting of trees. All of that will make a significant contribution to the achievement of the agricultural measures under the land use change and forestry chapter of the...