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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: For peat, it will mean rewetting to a certain extent 35% by 2050 and restoring 70% by 2050. Based on the annexes to the documents, restoration basically means rewetting. They do not give examples of measures other than rewetting to a certain extent. It does not mention what level, but rewetting is the main aim. The Commission made no distinction between restoration and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: It is. The Netherlands has a lot of peat in the north. The Dutch did a lot of peat extraction, like we do, with turf extraction, etc. However, much of their land is just basic wetlands. They will be in considerable bother either way because of the nature restoration. Article 4.2 refers to the re-creation. In many cases, they need to create nature where it did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

...or there might not be the necessity to put up such a specific year base but, in certain areas, it is to get a habitat to a specific year base in terms of pre-industrial. To take the example of peatlands, what has been done in Ireland is the extraction of peat in an industrial fashion by Bord na Móna. The aim will be to restore that to its condition prior to it having been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: That is exactly it. Only 20% of the target for agricultural peatland can be covered by something other than agricultural area. That means forestry or peatland forestry or peat extraction. Only 20% of the target can come from Bord na Móna peat extraction areas, so the majority of the target must be met by agricultural peatland farms. As Deputy Fitzmaurice stated, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: On the issue of peat, what does restoring 70% mean? Is it peatland that has been drained or is it peatland where cattle have been grazing? That needs to be defined for us. Progress has been made with Bord na Móna and so on. Have exact parameters been defined in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: Completely new provisions and measures will have to be put in place. There are schemes already in place for example, farmed peat in the midlands that aims to restore peat on farmlands. There are some smaller schemes that do this work but also the Bord na Móna scheme. The Government can look at what already happens. For example, a couple of acres, which adds up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Daly: ...tractor would sink. How will the proposal work in such circumstances? My first question is on the percentage. Is the percentage – be it 20%, 30% or 70%, given the year – a percentage of the peatland drained for a commercial purpose, be it peat extraction or agriculture, or of our overall landmass?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: There was no cap because it did not allow for peat extraction areas, such as Bord na Mona areas or forested peatlands, to be included as drained agricultural peatlands. That, after a lot of pushing, they were included in the first place is significant. What is there is too much for some groups. If we speak to people working for various organisations it is too much for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Not all Bord na Mona lands are subject to extraction now. A certain proportion of its lands have not been subject to peat extraction for a considerable period of time. Does the regulation state that any land that was ever subject to extraction is exemp? Was that the initial proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I understand what Mr. Curley said about drained peatland, but how do areas that were subject to peat extraction and were drained peatland end up being exempted? Perhaps I have missed something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Mr. Curley said that initially, under the first proposal, all Bord na Móna lands that were subject to peat extraction were exempted and did not have to be rewetted. Then, under the second proposal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

...under the wetland targets. According to this law, these lands have to be rewet to a certain extent. Under the current and only proposal, a cap has been introduced, and land that has been drained for peat extraction can be used in meeting the target. Of the 70% of peatlands that have been drained in whatever country across Europe, areas that were previously extracted for peat can now be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...scrutiny of the veterinary medicinal products medicated feed and fertilisers regulation Bill 2022. The committee will also meet at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 October, when we will examine peat supply for the horticultural sector. There will be a private committee meeting on Tuesday at 3.30 p.m. On Thursday week as well, we will have the launch of the report on issues impacting on dog...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)

Mr. Niall Curley: That is exactly what it is designed for. It is meant to target agricultural peatland to reduce the amount of active peatland used for extraction or exploited for agriculture or forestry. This is just a proposal that came out back on 22 June. It has, however, been written over the past two years. I received a leak and some colleagues and I really pushed for something of...