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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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turbary Rights (28 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Instrument 386/22, which provides for the designation of the site at Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) as a Special Area of Conservation, states that all activities relating to turf cutting and/or peat extraction – with the exception of continued domestic turf cutting from existing turf banks – on Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC (000165) require the permission of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: ...Cavan, 96% of the road network is made up of local and regional roads. They carry significant volumes of heavy goods traffic and 92% of County Cavan is covered by drumlin soils, mountain and hill peats, which causes difficulty in maintaining a road network. The Minister talked about local authorities' own resources. The local authorities in Cavan and Monaghan have very limited...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business Supports (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: My Department has made funding available to the Midlands region, through the National and EU Just Transition Funds, to support workers, companies and communities affected by the ending of peat extraction for power generation by Bord na Móna and by the closure of the ESB's peat-fired power stations in the region. The National Just Transition Fund, administered by my Department and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...radical thing to try to figure out how we communicate complex messages and issues and get feedback from Joe Public on them. The just transition commissioner went into communities and talked with peat workers in Bord na Móna and businesses affected by the peat transition. He talked to affected community groups and there is a public participation network of community groups there, and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...of community rating, open enrolment, lifetime cover and minimum benefits is designated as part of the Health Insurance Risk Equalisation Scheme. 2.The building and the operation of two new peat-fired generation stations for security of electricity supply is designated for compensation under the Sale of State assets Scheme (State Aid Case number: SA. 37030). This Scheme was terminated in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Mr. Brendan Gleeson: I will explain the process of approval and perhaps reflect on where we were 20 years ago. We planted on deep peatlands 20 years ago. Our understanding of the net emissions factors from planting on deep peatlands is different now than it was then. Maybe it was not even a consideration then. Most of that was done between the 1950s and the 1980s. We are one of the few...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...available under the national fund by the end of 2024 while the EU fund will provide up to €169 million until 2027, so that is a longer-term transition for the region. That arises from the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation. I will certainly examine and reflect on what the Deputy has said. Just transition has to become just transformation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

...on their own land. As I said, we are supporting farmers in different ways through different schemes to manage their lands in different ways. There are two projects in the midlands related to farm peat and farm carbon and, again, it is working with farmers. We are getting information from that. It is certainly giving some confidence to farmers and helping them get over some of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...fossil fuel budgets for the energy systems that work for agriculture and therefore, to know whether we are on track, we need to know much fossil fuel we have, that is, the budget of oil, gas, coal and peat. As Mr. Ó Gallachóir said, while electric vehicle sales are growing, so are fossil fuel car sales and therefore, petrol and diesel sales are not falling. The third area...

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

Charlie McConalogue: The actions in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) which may be considered as ‘the hay meadow measure in ACRES' are Low Input Grassland (LIG) and Low Input Peat Grassland (LIPG), as well as the late meadow bonus (LMB) which is available as part of those actions. The figures requested are presented in the below table: Action No of applications approved...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands and Ireland’s Ancient East by diversifying the local economy and providing new employment opportunities for workers and communities that were heavily dependent on peat. This will be delivered by Fáilte Ireland and marks the beginning of the regenerative tourism development journey in Ireland, as we work towards a low carbon economy. ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is saying but – there is a "but" – seven years is currently prescribed and that is consistent with the Statute of Limitations. Last week, we dealt with another section related to quarrying and peat extraction, where we can go past that date, which I think we all agreed would be a good thing. The proposal to extend it to 15 years would remove the impetus from a planning...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Daly: ...incorporation scheme, but I have people on to me about the irony of us incorporating or chopping up our own straw in the harvest time and now importing straw from the UK. The comparison has been made with when we stopped harvesting peat for environmental reasons but found ourselves, on the other hand, importing it from eastern Europe. With regard to the climate and environment, which is...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...do. I spoke to a farmer the other day who said he was going to plant a hectare but he was told that he cannot. I asked him why and he said it was because the new EU rules are that there cannot be a depth of peat of more than 30 cm, or it is over. This is where we have to make sure we do things right. If we want to talk about doing things differently for water quality, we should talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Antitrust Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements in Agriculture: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the sustainability side, Ms Jany-Roskova is aware of the nature restoration law, which is thankfully on hold at the moment in Brussels. If a farmer in the west of Ireland was producing beef on a peat-type soil that under the nature restoration law should be rewetted, would that be viewed as not sustainable and would that farmer be at a disadvantage under this?