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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: The reduced VAT rate of 13.5% applies to the following energy products and supplies: - The supply of coal, peat and other solid substances offered for sale solely as fuel. - The supply of hydrocarbon oil of a kind used for domestic or industrial heating, excluding gas oil (within the meaning of section 94(1) of the Finance Act 1999), other than gas oil which has been duly marked in accordance...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (23 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Grants Scheme is the second call under the Local and Regional Economic Strategies Support Scheme (LRESSS), designed to assist Local Authorities and their communities previously reliant on peat production to modernise and diversify their local economies. The LRESSS is funded through Ireland's EU Just Transition Fund (JTF) Programme. The grant size for EU JTF Community Enterprise Grants is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (23 Jul 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...status assessment for the 2013-2018 period Provides a comprehensive description of the assessment of the conservation status of Active raised bogs (7110); Degraded raised bogs (7120) and & Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion (7150) for the 2013-18 period Q4 2024 Irish Wildlife Manual - Mapping, monitoring, and protecting ancient and long-established woodland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Table 4 of my Department’s publication ‘Environmental Requirements for Afforestation' and start at 10 metres for mineral soils on moderate slopes, to 25 metres on steep slopes on soils with a peat component or on sites within the sub-basin of high status objective waterbodies, as identified under the Water Framework Directive process. The extent of open space created by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (23 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...Aid for Energy Efficiency, Automation and Processing for Commercial Mushroom Producers €235,069 The 2023 Scheme of Investment Aid for Commercial Non-Primary Producers in the Mushroom Sector and for Peat Replacement by Commercial Mushroom Producers. €1,045,087 2023 Mushroom Promotional Support €1,010,000 EU Producer Organisation Scheme for fruit and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...improved that and have a much better programme now, but there are environmental conditionalities that make it difficult to plant in places where we used to. For example, we used to plant on deep peat, which was probably not a great idea, but we are not allowed to do that anymore.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Jul 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...as propellants are chargeable to Mineral Oil Tax (MOT). Natural gas used for all non-propellant purposes, including heating, is subject to Natural Gas Carbon Tax (NGCT). Solid fuels, including coal, peat and peat products, are subject to Solid Fuel Carbon Tax (SFCT) and electricity is subject to Electricity Tax. Mineral Oil Tax comprises a non-carbon component (NCC) and a carbon...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (9 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the peat restoration projects his Department or its agencies have supported; the estimated capital and recurring costs of the work; the proportion funded from public funds; and the projected gains in carbon abatement and biodiversity. [29504/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Jul 2024)

...be planted, which is 50%. Mr. Savage can correct me if I am wrong about any of this. It includes the proportion of native species that has to be planted in individual plantations and planting on peat, which we now know led to let emissions in some historical situations. That is some of the conditionality that was applied to forestry. There will be a mid-term review of the programme...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...of the midlands region. The designated territory for Ireland’s programme was approved by the Government and by the European Commission and is aligned with the historical dependence of the region on commercial peat extraction for power generation as described in the territorial just transition plan which underpins the programme. To date, €137 million of this funding has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Review: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

.... It is important, however, that we try to incentivise people. The law does not absolve people from taking part. It does not exclude landowners or farmers from taking part in the restoration of peatland and the rewetting of farmland if they so choose to do. The regulation also includes this statement: "Member States shall, as appropriate, incentivise rewetting to make it an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turbary Rights (25 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...is designated as an Special Area of Conservation under Statutory Instrument No. 329 of 2023. Schedule 4 of this Statutory Instrument states that all activities relating to turf cutting and/or peat extraction – with the exception of continued domestic turf cutting from existing turf banks- in this SAC require the permission of the Minister before they can be carried out. Where...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the order. (4) In this section— “fossil fuel” means coal, oil, natural gas, peat or any derivative thereof intended for use in the production of energy by combustion; “fossil fuel undertaking” means an undertaking which is— (a)...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... The Minister of State has spoken about it being voluntary. I will give him an example of what the Department of agriculture is going to do in August with a voluntary measure. If you have peaty type land with green grass growing on it, to receive next year's BISS scheme payment, you have to say you will not plough it, shore it or make any new drain in it. Is that voluntary?...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Former President Mary Robinson (12 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...to moving fast enough is what we call the "fossil fuel lobby". The fossil fuel lobby is an impediment in two big ways. First, it gets subsidies to continue to provide a fuel that is harming the world, whether it is coal, oil or gas. In this country it was turf - or peat - and we are getting out of that.According to The B Team of business leaders, we spend $1.8 trillion per year on what...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (12 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding invested in new roads/bridges or for road realignments. Offaly County Council in conjunction with the Department of Transport have been working on a pilot project for the roads over peat. The pilot project is to help identify innovative solutions in dealing with the issue of road over peat. Between 2022 and 2023, Offaly County Council received €1,953,572 in funding...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...section 10(1)(e), to act in this regard. Section 5 was used very successfully by an NGO, Friends of the Irish Environment, in regard to question concerning an exemption to development in respect of peat extraction. It was a very successful use of section 5 that led to this declaration being upheld and defended and the finding that the proposed extraction was development. In this regard,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...;s publication ‘Environmental Requirements for Afforestation Working Document v.31Aug23’ and start at 10 metres for mineral soils on moderate slopes, to 25 metres on steep slopes on soils with a peat component. These setbacks are based on the findings from the HydroFOR project (2016). The extent of open space created by setbacks is therefore dependant on site types and the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Funding (30 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...EU Just Transition region. €68 million has been allocated to Fáilte Ireland to implement a Regenerative Tourism and Placemaking Scheme for Ireland’s Midlands. The focus of the scheme is to provide new employment opportunities for workers and communities that were heavily dependent on peat by diversifying the local economy, which will include new opportunities for...