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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Horticulture Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...Irish jobs, the economy and our food safety and security. I reassure the Deputy the Government is working as a priority to assist the horticultural industry in resolving the issues in respect of peat harvesting and managing the difficult but necessary transition away from the widespread use of peat for horticultural purposes in the coming years. I have taken a note of the Deputy's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Horticulture Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I first raised concerns in this House regarding the availability of peat to the Irish horticultural sector, in particular, the mushroom sector, in July 2020. I was told by the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine that his Department was working as part of a cross-departmental group evaluating the use of peat in the commercial horticultural sector. At that point, the problems...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Horticulture Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Josepha Madigan: I thank Deputy Carthy for raising this important matter, which I am happy to take on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. As the Deputy is aware, extraction of peat for the Irish professional horticultural industry in recent years has been challenging from both a legal and regulatory perspective. A series of High Court judgments, beginning in the early 2010s, which dealt with peat...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Horticulture Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...inaction and indifference of Government has meant the mushroom sector, those who work in it and the communities that depend on it are facing an existential threat due to the shortage of horticultural peat. The problem has not been resolved and shows no signs of being resolved, despite what the Minister has said. The sector needs peat. The Government set up a working group. It...