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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

...environmental sector. Comprised of 32 environmental NGOs, the Environmental Pillar works to promote environmental sustainability and the protection of Ireland’s natural environment. Globally, peatlands support threatened biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services to society such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, water regulation and human well-being....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

...farmland habitats proposes to increase grassland butterflies and farmland birds, the stock of organic carbon in cropland mineral soils and the share of agricultural land with high-diversity landscape features, restoring drained peatlands under agricultural use. Of particular concern to farmers are the proposed targets with regard to restoring drained peatlands under agriculture use. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

...Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, INHFA developed. In our submission we have focused on the EU nature restoration regulation, as it is a major concern for many our members who operate on peat soils. As is clear from the submission, there is a lot of detail to cover in this regulation, which is why we have not included details around the land use review. However, we are happy to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Mr. Fintan Kelly: I take that point but the science is clear that we need to deliver rewetting across all types of peatlands and organic soils. That includes forestry, industrial peat extraction, domestic peat extraction and farmland. My point on the nature restoration law is that, if the EU has lower targets than what the science is telling us we need at a national level, that weakens our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Mr. Paul O'Brien: If we are to look at this, it is the EIPs we need to look at. I was with the farm peat EIP a couple of weeks ago. There were about 50 to 60 farmers across the midlands in places like Offaly, going into Roscommon, and about 20% of them have voluntarily allowed the blocking of their drains. Their problem, however, is that they have been given only reassurances that the EIP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

.... There is also a lot of water pollution which impacts on high-status water bodies that support things like freshwater crab, mussels and salmon. Where afforestation has taken place on deep peats or organic soils, there are significant greenhouse gas emissions. By contrast, rewetting of agricultural land could actually allow ongoing farming activities. It would enhance biodiversity in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...coming through all the time but every piece of evolution in the science is pointing to a greater urgency to act. Any suggestion that there is not clarity around the need to act on the rewetting of peatlands is not accurate, does not match the science and is, in fact, dangerous, and I wanted to say that. I am glad that it was said, perhaps more eloquently, by Ms O'Neill. It is important....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

...at EU level - our partner networks in the European Environmental Bureau and the BirdLife network - we have heard that Ireland is actually one of the most negative member states when it comes to the peatlands and organic soil targets. This has been very frustrating for us because, as I said, we have engaged with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as well as the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

.... My understanding from the Commission as regards nature restoration and rewetting is this: the text defines rewetting as "a deliberate action that aims to bring the water table of a drained peatland back to that of the peat-forming peatland; the peatland is rewetted when the mean annual water table is near or at the soil surface." That is how the EU sees that. If we are seeing it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: .... Let us look at the evolution of this. Government, through Teagasc and others, encouraged the draining of land and planting on the worst bits of it. On raised bogs, where there is a scum of peat across land that cannot be drained, there is dóib buí coming in to meet it on the other hand. Dóib buí is soil that does not drain water and nothing grows on it but rushes....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...I am particularly interested in Bord na Móna and the Derryadd mid-Shannon wilderness programme. Again, it goes back to trust with a community and just transition. When Bord na Móna was ending the peat extraction on that site, it gave a commitment to the community that it was going to give the bog back to them. The community, the local authority and the senior planner all put...