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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...redistribution of carbon tax receipts; one hundred per cent funding of energy efficiency interventions for poorer households; and implementing a Just Transition Plan for the Midlands to address the end of peat harvesting for energy generation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland 2022-2027: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

...that but they happen rarely. We need to see that obligation amended. A lot of that forestry might be in very sensitive freshwater pearl mussel catchments. Freshwater pearl mussel require open peatland habitat because they require constant hydrology and any trees in that area, regardless of what kind, will decimate freshwater pearl mussels. In those sort of areas we need a return to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Fleming: ...June 2020 following heavy rain on that day and in the preceding days. An area of upland blanket bog, including an area of adjacent forestry plantation, moved downhill as a result of the liquefied peat, vegetation and trees continuing from its source to follow the course of a tributary of the Diffagher River downhill to Lough Allen. Some of the landslide material was held up at an area...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Verona Murphy: ...poorly thought-out energy policies that have resulted in rising costs, coupled with the consequences of Brexit. These policies include shutting down energy production in Ireland and instead importing peat from eastern Europe, banning gas exploration and instead buying Russian gas abroad, and imposing carbon taxes on fuel and home heating oil and then applying VAT on the tax. These are...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...with the issue and because of their failure to legislate to create a process to deal with it, there are an enormous number of illegal developments in the State. There are illegal quarries, illegal peat harvesting and illegal wind farms, such as the one at Derrybrien. Sinn Féin welcomes this Bill because there continue to be far too many illegal developments. We want to work with the...

Seanad: Carbon Budgets: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...swards. Sixth, there will be a reduction in emissions from land use and a move to being an overall store of carbon, which will involve further bog rehabilitation, increased afforestation and the rewetting of peat organic soils. A new forestry programme will be prepared for launch in 2023. This plan places a just transition at its core. It sets out four principles that will guide our...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turf Cutting (5 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...are over 16,200 life years lost, while many people also experience a poor quality of life due to the associated short-term and long-term health impacts of this form of pollution. The National Peatlands Strategy acknowled`ges the tradition of burning peat in Ireland, but also recognises that the associated emissions to the air contain a range of pollutants. Research undertaken by the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022) See 8 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: ...who was appointed. Is the Minister of State aware that Bord na Móna has entered into a contract with an Israeli company and given it exclusive rights to the 2,000 tonnes of high grade horticultural peat in its remit? Bord na Móna is a State-owned company. It has unilaterally taken that move despite the Minister of State having a working paper that indicates an independent...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Climate Action Plan (31 Mar 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...reduction of between 5 million and 7 million tonnes. The sector will also contribute additionally through reducing land-based emissions, through better managing our soils and, in particular, peat soils.The focus over the next decade will be on a significant cut in chemical nitrogen use, by making better use of organic manures and transitioning to clover and multispecies swards. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (31 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Dillon: 143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an update will be provided on the research funding announced by his Department in December 2021 for research into peat alternatives; if consideration is being given to harvesting peat domestically for horticultural purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when measures will be introduced to ensure there is an adequate supply of domestic peat for the mushroom and horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14870/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Browne: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in the appointment of an independent expert as referenced in the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the meantime businesses in the horticultural sector are experiencing difficulties in raising queries with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...is much worse. We have things we can learn from in the past and maybe from some of what the Deputy talked about around how we did our forestry or whatever. Consider what happened in terms of peat, however. The picture was painted for us well in advance but we did not take the proactive positive steps I think we can now with this. My concern is this. We talk about bureaucracy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...is much worse. We have things we can learn from in the past and maybe from some of what the Deputy talked about around how we did our forestry or whatever. Consider what happened in terms of peat, however. The picture was painted for us well in advance but we did not take the proactive positive steps I think we can now with this. My concern is this. We talk about bureaucracy....

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...invitation of Deputy Mattie McGrath, we had a presentation from agricultural contractors in the audiovisual room, which showed the huge economic hardship being put on them. There is a ban on cutting peat in this country. I met representatives of the horticultural industry today and even if they can get the peat they need, the cost of importing it will break the industry. We must bring...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...some other mouth when we need energy. Now we see where we are; we are drawing coal from Russia to keep Moneypoint going. We have to keep it going. We are drawing woodchip from Germany and importing peat from Latvia and other places. We see where we are now. I will finish on that note as I am cutting into another speaker's time.

Seanad: Impact on Farming Sector Arising from the Situation in Ukraine: Statements (29 Mar 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Paul Daly: ...of the next CAP. I do not know whether it would be possible to look at that. He mentioned horticulture, fruit and vegetables. We have had the debates, and I will not go over them again, about the importation of peat from the Baltic states. That is also an issue. Our horticulture sector, which has been depending on imported peat to meet its needs, will not have access to the same...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (29 Mar 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...the urgency of diversifying Ireland’s sources of energy supply to ensure energy security and competitiveness of enterprises operating in Ireland, which is heavily reliant on imported energy (oil, gas, coal, and peat). In particular, the dominance of gas is a risk to both the physical security of supply and in terms of exposure to price variation. The NCPC also emphasised that...

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

Matt Carthy: 898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will commission a socioeconomic impact assessment on the results of re-wetting 105,000 ha of farmed drained peat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Mar 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of factors which include high levels of afforestation in earlier decades; a projected increase in harvesting as forest mature over the coming decade;deforestation;and higher emissions of CO2from peat soils under forestry than previously estimated. In 2024, the forest estate is estimated to become a source of 0.5 Mt CO2eq. The potential sequestration associated with an afforestation rate of...