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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]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...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, water body status, acid-sensitive areas, archaeology, landscape and local sensitivities. While it is of the utmost...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...investment in projects to deal with this uncertainty, with the National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory seeking to provide a more accurate picture of soil emissions and removals; the RePeat project to provide greater resolution peat soil maps; and two European Innovation Projects, FarmPeat and FarmCarbon, who are working with farmers at farm level to develop innovative solutions, with...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Scheme along with several European Innovation Partnership (EIP) research projects, to provide the required data for the development of future policy options in this area. An example is the RePEAT project working to accurately identify the extent of organic soils under agricultural management. Investment in European Innovation Projects in the Midlands is developing a results-based...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...investment in projects to deal with this uncertainty, with the National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory seeking to provide a more accurate picture of soil emissions and removals; the RePeat project to provide greater resolution peat soil maps; and two European Innovation Projects, FarmPeat and FarmCarbon, who are working with farmers at farm level to develop innovative solutions, with...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...and long-term climate strategies supported by a system of carbon budgeting and sectoral emissions ceilings to meet our 2030 and 2050 targets. Ireland has committed to an early and complete phasing out of coal- and peat-fired electricity generation and has ceased issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration. In fact, we also ceased issuing new licences for coal exploration since the...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...climate crisis. I will focus on the motion. As Deputies will be aware, the 2018 Act requires ISIF to divest from companies engaged in exploration, extraction or refinement of fossil fuels, which includes coal, oil, peat, natural gas or any equivalents. A fossil fuel undertaking is defined as being in the business of "exploration for or extraction or refinement of a fossil fuel where such...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (13 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...set out in Climate Action Plan 2023. In relation to the Midlands region, the Climate Action Plan sets out the response of the Government to the challenges posed by the early closure of the ESB's peat-fired power stations and the end of peat extraction by Bord na Mona. This response has also been informed by the reports and recommendations of Kieran Mulvey in his role as Just Transition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...security concerns. Many people, including me, would like to have moved away from coal earlier at Moneypoint but the energy security reality has not allowed us to do that. We have moved away from peat, which has been a difficult transition for many people who were employed in that sector. We will move away from coal and, ultimately, we will move away from gas, but we have to do it in a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Regulations (7 Dec 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: .... If the Regulation is approved, Member States will then need to develop and implement National Restoration Plans. The proposed Regulation provides that restoration targets relating to drained peatlands, including rewetting, can be achieved across a range of areas including former industrial peat extraction sites and other drained peatlands. In Ireland, this means that the targets set...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Fitzmaurice: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the specific section of the specific policy document that specified a maximum peat depth of 50 cm applied to the afforestation scheme in the last forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54368/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...a forestry strategy for the forestry industry finally approved by Brussels. That strategy will not work because the land we should be planting on is being barred from planting. We cannot plant now on peat land, designated land or unenclosed land. I was at a conference on climate change and agriculture in the Aviva Stadium a couple of weeks ago. The common theme among all the experts...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ..., Roscommon, and Westmeath; and specified municipal districts in Galway, Kildare and Tipperary), to address the longer-term economic transition of the region arising from the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation. To date, €66 million of funding has been made available for projects that support the bioeconomy, electric vehicle charging infrastructure,...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to be unwound given the higher rate of nitrous oxide and particulate matter, PM, emitted from diesel fumes, both of which have been linked to premature death and strokes in humans. The Government continued to subsidise peat-fired electricity in 2019, which is one of the most polluting ways of producing electricity, through the public service obligation levy on electricity consumers. This...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the enforcement of the planning code and the prosecution of offences arising under the Bill. It provides for the establishment of regional enforcement authorities to allow enforcement of certain types of development such as quarries and peat extraction to be dealt with on a regional basis. Part 12 relates to appeal procedures, the planning register and records, and miscellaneous powers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: Our new forestry programme has made changes regarding where trees can be planted. Anything with a peat depth of more than 30 cm is excluded from our current forestry programme. Many areas which would have traditionally been forested many decades ago are no longer eligible because our understanding from the research and evidence about the contribution to emissions reductions has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund: Discussion (29 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...aid for energy, efficiency, automation and processing for commercial mushroom producers and the 2023 scheme of investment aid for commercial, non-primary producers in the mushroom sector and for peat replacement by commercial mushroom producers. Both these schemes were designed to accelerate investment in the mushroom sector to reduce inefficiencies caused by Brexit. The Senator is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (28 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Eamon Ryan: ...Dec 2023. Scheduled to close thereafter Moneypoint 820MW Coal Modelled as not available from October 2024 Edenderry 118MW Peat Will now run exclusively on biomass from Jan 2024 As part of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities Security of Supply Programme, plans have been put in place to extend the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (28 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has proposals to amend planning laws to permit the excavation of peat for horticulture purposes in tandem with efforts to determine alternatives to the use of peat by the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52104/23]