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Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...power and clung onto it by supporting the Greens. It is dancing their merry tune since forming the Government. The cost increases out there are shocking. The cost of living is so high. I do not have time to repeat them all but I have them. We all know when we consider mom's purse of a Friday evening. All of us who have children in college or school know of the costs of school...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...responsibility and come to the House. The committee has taken steps to address that, including writing to the Ceann Comhairle. That is another issue but I ask for a renewed debate on the milling of peat in the short term for the horticultural sector.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (23 Feb 2022)

...who are involved from the European perspective. I recall that Deputy Barry Cowen lobbied the previous Commission intensely on this issue. He engaged a great deal with the Commission to ensure peatlands were included. When Shannonbridge and Lanesborough, which is further north, were wound down in terms of electricity generation, that had an immediate impact on people in the sense that...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...to benefit all of us in the short to medium term with the likes of green technology and jobs in the green sector. We can look to areas with which I am very familiar, which have poor land and peat, and what is happening in the midlands. What is being done around a just transition is not perfect at all but there are people who worked on the bogs and looked like they were losing their jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (23 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...register of all extractive industries within its functional area, including the extraction, treatment and storage of mineral resources, the working of quarries, and the extraction, treatment and storage of peat. Where air quality is found to be impacted in the environs of a quarry, the matter should be reported to the relevant Local Authority and the Environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (23 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Smith: ...ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be implemented to assist the mushroom and horticulture sectors due to the difficulties that have arisen in relation to peat harvesting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10416/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Daly: ...purpose for which it was processed. Would it be a viable proposition? Is a lot of acreage needed or could a farmer get a return from a small acreage? Will the witnesses elaborate on the drain peat soil, whether it is the ideal soil for hemp or if it can be grown in uplands or other soils? In regard to hemp being a rotational crop, does it have to be rotated or could it be grown in...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...she will make a statement on the matter; (12) Deputy Matt Carthy - to ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made on the implementation of the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply; (13) Deputy Chris Andrews - to ask the Minister for Justice to address the growing public safety concerns in Dublin’s inner city; to outline what...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (22 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...that we will continue to decarbonise the electricity sector by taking advantage of our significant renewable energy resources. The Plan also includes a target to complete the phase-out of coal and peat-fired electricity generation in Ireland. In doing this we must ensure a continued secure supply of energy, which is vital for the proper functioning of society and the economy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...of working groups established under the Just Transition programme which looked at the future of the Midlands area following the closure of the ESB Midlands stations and the ending of the harvesting of peat by Bord na Móna.  One of these groups, which included the Just Transition Commissioner and Offaly and Longford County Councils,  looked specifically at how the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Eamon Ryan: The 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.To date, my Department has finalised grant agreements with 55 National Just Transition Fund projects. The total value of...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe Carey: ...people are elderly and may need further assistance to partake in this programme. More than half, or 25,640, of the homes in Clare are heated by oil-fired systems. A further 15,000 homes are heated by gas, coal, or peat-fired systems. Retrofitting these homes would lead to a dramatic reduction in Clare's carbon emissions. To review the progress of this programme, I would like to see a...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...local government's responsibilities towards climate action in light of a vote by Galway City Council to revoke the trial of the Salthill cycleway; (23) Deputy Matt Carthy - to discuss progress to implement the working paper on challenges to peat supply; (24) Deputies Pat Buckley and Mairéad Farrell - to discuss how resolution can be found in a protected disclosure; (25) Deputy Chris...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: I raise the issue of the horticultural sector and the harvesting of peat for 2022. Stakeholders have issued a report that was signed off by them and by the relevant Departments that put recommendations in place that would allow for the issuing of licences for the horticulture industry to harvest peat. I met with representatives of the industry last week who are extremely concerned that the...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on the Carbon Budget: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...systems. Reducing emissions for land use and moving it from being a source of emissions to a store will involve huge amounts of bog rehabilitation, significantly increased afforestation and the rewetting of peat organic soils. A new forestry programme will be prepared for launch in 2023. The plan places a just transition at the core, setting out four principles that will guide our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022) See 6 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in ascertaining the level of horticultural peat stock available to growers; and if his Department has commissioned experts to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30 ha bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Research Funding (10 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of the sector. Under the Department’s most recent 2021 competitive research Call, two projects have been funded that will see investment of almost €2million in horticulture research. “Beyond Peat” will investigate the potential for utilising organic bio-resources and novel technologies to develop specifically designed and sustainable peat replacements for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Browne: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made ascertaining the level of horticultural peat stock available to growers; and if his Department has commissioned experts to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30-hectare bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry. [7076/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...wild bird species. We also work closely on agriculture policy, which is the biggest driver of biodiversity decline in Ireland, but also on other issues affecting farmland birds such as forestry, peat cutting and climate change mitigation and adaptation. For the record, I am one of two Environmental Pillar representatives to the national CAP consultative committee. Farming in Ireland...

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

Matt Carthy: ...Question No. 835 of 1 February 2022, if he or his colleagues in have had engagements with Bord na Móna with regard to provision of access to extraction equipment or mixing plant to the commercial peat extraction for horticultural use sector in the State; the timeline for implementing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/22]