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- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I welcome these amendments from the Seanad. They will bring some fairness to this climate action Bill. I want to support this in terms of peat. With regard to the madness there, we have had discussions at the Oireachtas committee I chair on peat extraction in this country. It makes absolutely no sense that the horticulture and the nursery sectors are not able to acquire locally harvested...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Duncan Smith: ...was criticised for not attending, but my understanding is the Minister of State attended and looked the individuals in that industry in the eye and said they needed to be supported to transition beyond peat-based compost. That is an honest thing to say to a group who will have to make that transition, but it is a transition we will all have to make. It will be difficult and complex, but...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yesterday, people from the peat industry were outside. I was disappointed that the Minister did not go out to meet them. They are growers who say that their businesses are being adversely affected. I met people who have been involved in horticulture for decades. Their families are steeped in it. They wonder how in the name of God it makes sense that they must now get their peat from...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)
Michael Healy-Rae: ...the climate. My goodness gracious me, but what it is doing is an absolute disgrace and I will rub the Government's nose in it again and remind it that it stopped us from making and selling peat briquettes in Ireland. The Government shut down our plants while telling us that it was fine for us to import briquettes from Germany and sell those German-made briquettes proudly. I continually...