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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Horticulture Sector (28 Jun 2021)

Robbie Gallagher: ..., for taking time out of her busy schedule to be here this morning for this very important debate on the imminent crisis facing the horticultural sector due to the restrictions on agricultural peat harvesting. The mushroom industry is the largest horticultural sector in Ireland with a farm gate value of €119 million, of which approximately 85% is exported to the UK. It employs...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Horticulture Sector (28 Jun 2021)

Pippa Hackett: I agree with the Senator. There is a strong understanding in the mushroom sector and the wider horticulture sector that in the future, peat will not play a major role in their production but we need that just transition. We need to be able to support the sector and move to that place where it is not so reliant on peat. Within the mushroom sector, the research has looked at spent mushroom...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Horticulture Sector (28 Jun 2021)

Pippa Hackett: ...issue to the House. I appreciate the importance of the mushroom sector in Ireland, particularly in the Senator's own area of Monaghan. My Department has no involvement in the regulation of peat extraction. This is a planning process under the remit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and an integrated pollution control, IPC, licence process under the remit of the...