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Seanad: Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (31 May 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...the Senator made relates to her concern about having sufficient supply of skilled workers to do these tasks. When we think about just transition, we often think about people who are involved in peat-burning, coal-burning or in other types of dirty energy production. There are many other jobs throughout society that will also transform. People who are involved in oil or gas prospecting...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...Loss have not been met with universal approval despite the glow and spin that has been given to them. That also comes within the context of fears around the mandatory rewetting of drained peat farmland and the annihilation of many farmers' capacity to sustain a livelihood on the land or to pass a farm onto the next generation. Only two weeks ago, I hosted a cross-party briefing on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ..., rural Ireland, horticulture and forestry. I would like a focused debate on the horticultural food sector, including the mushroom sector, which is part of that and the challenges around peat.

Seanad: Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and many vulnerable, high-status water bodies. Bord na Móna has 1% of Ireland's land area. These include land holdings that have the potential to support a rich diversity of wildlife across wetlands, peatlands, grasslands and woodlands. Both bodies can play and should be playing a very significant role in biodiversity and climate action strategies. It is worth noting that public...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (11 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ... approved by Government and adopted by the European Commission in December 2022. The Programme aims to address the long-term economic transition of the Midlands, following the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation, incorporating €84.5 million of funding from the EU Just Transition Fund for the period 2021 to 2027. When national co-financing is...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I was brought up to adore. We did not like Bord na Móna, we did not admire it, we adored it for the work it did and for the way people went out and drained the bogs, put down railway tracks and harvested peat. They did great work in bad times and with what we would consider bad machinery, if we look back at what they had to work with at the time in comparison with what is there now....

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...paying people to dismantle it, as we did with the sugar factories. We had four sugar factories and now we have none. We are importing sugar from all kinds of countries at the moment, as we are importing peat, wood chip and everything else. It is a sheer act of madness and it is totally unacceptable.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (9 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of peat produced in Ireland from 2016 to 2021; and the level of peat exported from Ireland from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [21415/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Data (9 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of peat imported into Ireland from 2016 to 2023, broken down by country, in tabular form. [21416/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Mr. Bill Callanan: There is no doubt that addressing emissions associated with peat soils has by far the highest contribution potential in relation to carbon reduction.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., look at the folly of what is going on in Foynes, where we have mulch coming in from Brazil. There are thousands of tonnes of it and it must be transported up through the country to replace the peat we were producing ourselves. The Minister of State may shake his head because he is ashamed of that fact, which has made a lot of headlines in the last couple of days. I put down...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: Since the Government closed Shannonbridge and Lanesborough peat power plants in the middle of the country, it has come to light that it has been importing woodchip from Brazil. As has been said already, it has been importing peat from Latvia and it also imported coal from Russia to keep the Tarbert plant going. Since Shannonbridge and Lanesborough were closed, the cost of electricity has...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

...has been awarded €68 million through the EU just transition fund to deliver a transformative regenerative tourism scheme for the midlands, supporting rural communities directly affected by the move away from peat production by creating new employment and enhancing the local environment. We are currently developing a funding scheme and as part of this we are undertaking public...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...international climate finance by 2025. Government is 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 peat-fired power stations and the cessation of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. Some €29 million of funding will be available to this region in 2023 under...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...to at least 5GWsupporting at least 500MW of local, community-based renewable energy projects and increased levels of new micro-generation and small-scale generationphasing out the use of coal and peat in electricity generationEmissions in the Built Environment sector must reduce by 45% and we will increase the energy efficiency of existing buildings by expanding our retrofitting programme,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...No. 286 of 23 February 2023, while noting his announcement that he is 'reassessing its policy with regard to future afforestation on organic soils and that this will be informed by the UN Global Peatlands Assessment', if he will re-examine his reply in the context of this report's recommendations to set a depth-defining peat (organic) soils at 10 centimetres to avoid GHG emissions, and as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (25 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Barry Cowen: ...and ESB funds, following closures, of up to €15 million or more. On foot of an interjection by me and local councillors in my county, it was insisted that the then Government seek to include the peat regions among the coal regions eligible for funding under the EU just transition fund. That has been forthcoming and will be announced this week when the administrative element of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (25 Apr 2023)

Marian Harkin: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 26 October 2022, of the remaining 58,000 ha of Coillte lands on peat soil (details supplied), the area in hectares that is planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for commercial timber production; and the area in hectares planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (20 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: ...and the Marine the way in which he proposes to address the issues raised in the horticultural sector, with particular reference to the need to ensure the industry can be supplied with adequate moss peat to meet the full requirements of the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18891/23]