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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a scheme to incentivise the planting on trees on cutaway bogs that are no longer used for peat harvesting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8497/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In October 2019, Coillte and Bord na Móna announced a new initiative to plant approximately 4 million native trees across 1500 hectares of Bord na Móna land that is no longer used for peat production. Bord na Móna formally ended all peat harvesting on its lands by the end of 2019. As a result of this cessation in peat harvesting, industrial cutover peatlands are becoming...

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