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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Dr. Catherine Farrell: There were a couple of questions on wind farms on peat land. In the transition phase, we will try to ensure jobs. As an ecologist, I would love to say there will be wetlands, woodlands and restored bogs all over the place but we have to maximise the commercial use too. Cutaway bogs present a good opportunity for renewable energy projects. Instead of digging out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

...Cloonkeen and I am aware that a constituent of the Deputy is interested in continuing to cut turf in Attymon. On the integrated pollution control licence, we have a remit to rehabilitate all our peatlands after peat production to stabilise the ground in which peat production occurred. This involves drain blocking and natural processes for the regeneration of typical peatland species, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Dr. Catherine Farrell: My name is Dr. Catherine Farrell and I am head of ecology at Bord na Móna. I have been working on the conservation and restoration of peatlands since 1996. I am joined by my colleague Stuart Conaty, land and property manager at Bord na Móna. We thank the committee for inviting us here. In light of the time, I will reduce some of the paragraphs of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Dr. Catherine Farrell: I will address the approach to rewetting and rehabilitation of the bogs. To facilitate milled peat production, when working with peatland systems, one has to dig drains to dry the peat. We have an extensive network of field drains within our bog units. Our aim is not to flood the bogs but to raise the water level to the peat's surface. Within the topography of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...own houses, we are telling them what they cannot do and that they are criminals. Meanwhile, Germany, England and several other countries, including the Netherlands, take different types of milled peat for sewage systems and so on around the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Mr. Brian Lucas: First, I thank the committee for inviting the Department to make a presentation today. Peatlands cover approximately 20% of the State's land area and their use has implications across a wide spectrum of public policy. Intact peatlands produce an array of nature-generated benefits to society known as ecosystem services. These services provided by peatlands include water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

...providing one crust of bread, we need to look to provide another and we are very conscious of that. We are actively looking at other opportunities and we have made the announcement to transition out of peat over the course of the next decade. That gives us time to find other opportunities, such as in aquaculture and inland fisheries, and we will not waste that time. I am not sure where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Dr. Catherine O'Connell: I thank members for the opportunity to address them. I am representing the Irish Peatland Conservation Council, IPCC. Peatlands are regarded as among the harshest environments on the planet because they are waterlogged all year round and species of animals and plants that grow in them need to be specially adapted to survive. IPCC, however, says that peatlands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...500 people who have lost or are about to lose their jobs? All Bord na Móna turf cutting is to cease by 2025 or 2026. What provision is being made for jobs for these people, since there is still peat to be had and a need for it for people who use it to heat houses? The other concern that I have is about blocking drains, raising water levels and going back in history. In a place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

...and which has very uncertain consequences for us all. This has affected Ireland as much as any other country. Over many thousands of years Ireland’s unique geography and climate has produced peatland and bog landscapes of global significance. In historic times, they were home to a diversity of habitats and wildlife, including vast woodlands and wetlands with teeming birdlife...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...450 jobs. I believe there will be redundancies as I do not see any plan for other jobs. In its land division, or its move from the west to put it bluntly, there will be no jobs west of the Shannon in producing peat for Bord na Móna. With regard to the restoration of bogs, would it not have been a good idea to hold onto people in Derryfadda and other such areas who have had great...