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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in ascertaining the level of horticultural peat stock available to growers; and if his Department has commissioned experts to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30 ha bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

..., Climate and Communications and Housing, Local Government and Heritage, set out a working paper to put in place a series of actions to support the horticultural growers who are dependent on peat as a growing medium. Part of this series of actions includes the commissioning of an independent expert who will work with all peat suppliers to ascertain the volume of horticultural peat...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...and expert commissions; we have had everything. The only thing we have not had is action that will allow the horticulture sector to know that it will have an adequate supply of horticultural peat until an alternative is in place. There needs to be an alternative found but that has to be a sustainable and management alternative. In the meantime, people do not want to hear what the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

.... As addressed in the series of actions we published earlier this year, there are three types of actions. In the short term, it is commissioning those experts, both to ascertain the volume of peat supplies that currently exist and available to growers, and to examine working with extractors to enable and support them to become compliant. We have had decades of non-compliant peat...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...others that I referenced places a significant emphasis on the role of Bord na Móna but there is a lack of clarity on how Bord na Móna will assist. Can the Minister of State confirm that domestic peat producers will be offered first refusal on any overhanging Bord na Móna stocks? Can she confirm whether she has met with the company to discuss the outworkings of the working...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): It is important to qualify that Bord na Móna never supplied peat to the mushroom sector, and only supplied it to the amenity horticulture sector. The company has some supplies, and certainly it has indicated that those supplies will be made available to the amenity horticulture sector if it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (10 Feb 2022)

..., Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): At different stages, but in relation to this, since the report, my officials and my advisers have met them. If we are looking at small-scale peat extraction, the independent assessors put in place for that will help engage with those who wish to become compliant. It is important that they become compliant if we are to continue our own...