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Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Seán Canney: ...in oil-fired boilers instead of heat pumps. This is being funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland right now, in 2022. It is madness. We are going to have another fiasco like the one we had with the peat. We banned peat milling. We are now importing peat from elsewhere in Europe and causing more carbon dioxide emissions through the decision we made. There has been no...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...change and eco-socialist policies that put people's needs and our planet first. The science is crystal clear: Ireland bogs are the richest in Europe, and bogs are incredibly good carbon sinks. Peatlands cover 3% of the world's surface but store 40% of all carbon in the soil. They store twice as much carbon as all the forests in the world. They are a treasure trove of biodiversity in...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael McGrath: ...maintenance; — each year, some 1,300 people die prematurely in Ireland due to air pollution from solid fuel burning, and it is estimated that there are over 16,200 life years lost, while many people also experience a poor quality of life due to the associated short-term and long-term health impacts of this form of pollution; — turf cutting by citizens for use in their own...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...increased the most; — two-thirds of households in the West and North West rely on home heating oil to heat their homes, which has doubled in price in the last year alone; and — some four per cent of households depend on peat as the main energy source to heat their homes, rising to nine per cent of rural households and to one in five households in the Midlands; acknowledges...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...threat of the climate emergency are available to us. Our task as legislators is to implement them and to do so without delay. I want to speak specifically about the Government plans on the sale of turf and peat. This has not been handled well by Government. We have seen endless mixing of messages, confusion and lack of clarity. As the Minister has said, the final regulations have still...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...-off who cause most emissions and who are best placed to do something about it, yet most Government policies seem to penalise the poor, like those on burning turf. The importation of briquettes and peat from mainland Europe should be of greater environmental concern than stopping one neighbour from selling turf to another in a cost of living crisis. In a lot of cases, we are talking...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...in the media by Ministers and Government representatives in the past fortnight. It has fuelled fear for many people in rural Ireland regarding what is going to happen to their ability to burn peat for fuel this winter. Looking at the Minister of State’s proposed amendment, there seems to be no real clarity as to what is happening. The final regulations are still to be agreed....