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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]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if peat lands excluded from the afforestation scheme in the new forestry programme can potentially be used for other farming purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his engagements with his Cabinet colleagues in relation to the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6947/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Verona Murphy: ..., Food and the Marine how many of the 67 NTA licences have been planted and paid, and whether his Department has any plans to improve the attractiveness of the scheme by allowing black soil/shallow peat to qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to environmental sensitivities, such as habitats and species (including NATURA sites, Freshwater Pearl Mussel and Hen Harrier, Breeding Curlew, open habitat birds, Annex I habitats), high nature value farmland, peat soils, hedgerows, water quality (including fisheries sensitive areas, waterbody status, acid sensitive areas), archaeology, landscape, and local sensitivities.” ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for new development to be rolled into a substitute consent development. Some of us opposed it very strongly. This is particularly the case, for example, sometimes regarding unauthorised peat farms and unauthorised quarries, etc. Perhaps the Minister of State could ask the officials to clarify whether - I offer my apologies, because it is late and I am jumping between three different...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of the EU Nature Restoration Law that proposes to categorise all drained agricultural peat soils as degraded systems in terms of access for products grown on such land to the EU market and eligibility in the long-term for EU Common Agricultural Payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (7 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...electricity to power more than 2.5 million homes. Alongside expanding our renewable energy capacity, the Plan includes measures aimed at strengthening our grid and phasing out the use of coal and peat. This Government is also taking a number of significant measures to reduce our agricultural emissions. Measures in CAP24 include reducing our chemical nitrogen fertiliser use,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Union (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...affected by the transition to climate neutrality, ensuring that no one is left behind. In Ireland, this provides funding to the Midlands region, to address the longer-term socio-economic transition arising from the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation. The new Social Climate Fund, established as part of the Fit for 55 Package, will dedicate €65 billion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking this specific question. You have to look at all soils in the country. You have to look at peat soils, mineral soils and boggy soils. What is the definition of a healthy peat soil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...forestry industry is dead at the moment. I think 45 ha of this 1 acre dream world they were on about is all that is being done. We understood that we could plant if there was less than 35 ml of peat in the 1 ha, but now we cannot. It is in the doldrums. The big worry I would have is that we will not have a nursery left in Ireland to be quite frank about it. I would like the witnesses'...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...formal Notice INFR(2019)4007 Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment in relation to peat extraction projects Reasoned Opinion INFR(2022)2053 Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe in Ireland ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 1297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the amount of foreign peat-based products been sold in Ireland in each of the past five years. [2155/24]