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- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Mattie McGrath: ...asked to have Lanesborough and Shannonbridge reactivated. I am told that the plant in Lanesborough has been taken down, been exported to Germany and has been recommissioned there in. We are importing peat as well. The poor people out there are just devastated. The Government parties think that they can fleece them on the price of food. How are we going to get a tractor that is driven...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Michael Collins: ...and are willing to invest in this country. We need to put something in place. All we are doing is ruining things. People cannot sow forestry in this country. Because we cannot sow forestry, we have to import it. We have to import the peat moss from Latvia all over the country. We are the laughing stock of the world. The Brazilians must be falling over in stitches because of what is...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
John McGuinness: ...decided that it wanted to increase the herd and that this was a good thing for the economy. How is the Government going to fund that just transition moving them from one activity to the other? Peat and forestry were mentioned. We must be the laughing stock of Europe that we would stop producing peat and then start to import it. It is the same with timber. What is happening in the...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Alan Farrell: ...out these vital projects and the infrastructure necessary, without which we will struggle to align our ambition with our ability. We must also clarify our own policies, particularly in the context of peat production. Quite rightly, there has been confusion over recent reports of imports of peat to Ireland countering a long-held tradition of peat production in Ireland. While not all...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Matt Carthy: ...them into it. The Green Party is suggesting we eat less meat. Farmers who switched from beef to horticulture such as mushroom growing are rewarded with scenes of ships containing 4,000 tonnes of peat, having travelled a 3,000 km journey, arriving into Ireland where up to 200 trucks unload the peat that could be sourced here in a much more environmentally sustainable manner. That is the...
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Sorca Clarke: ...of northern Europe. The reason they are here is tax breaks, something we have seen today because of Perrigo. To conclude, this is the same constituency where, 30 km down the road, there is a stack of Latvian peat being stored at the edge of a bog.
- Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)
Jackie Cahill: ...about what will be imposed on them and the economic damage it can do. If anything has shaken public confidence in our ability to deal with climate change fairly, it is the mess we have made of peat and peat harvesting. The boatloads of peat that are being imported into the country from eastern Europe make a mockery of all we are trying to achieve on the climate-change agenda. It is...