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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...but on appeal the developers were granted planning permission for these developments. In consequence, Saorgus leased an 850 acre site at Derrybrien and construction commenced in October 2003. There was then a landslide of peat causing environmental damage to the site at Derrybrien when the contractors were constructing the wind farm. Huge amounts of peat were dislodged and slid across...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...impact assessments in order that we do not dig ourselves into these holes in the future? Ireland had to be pushed by the European Court of Justice about not doing environmental impact assessments on peat extraction properly. In an 18-month period over the last few years, 1.5 million tonnes of horticultural peat were exported from Ireland. We know that large-scale industrial peat...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...projects like that is also an enforcement matter on which I cannot comment. Comments were made by Senator Higgins regarding other elements that could impact negatively on the environment such as peat extraction and forestry. As an aside to this, the Attorney General is involved in a review of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has initiated a...