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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: ...will require further analysis and assessment regarding their eligibility as they are in areas where new restrictions may apply, which may affect their eligibility. These applications are either on peat soils, in high nature value areas, in breeding wader areas or a combination of these. I know that this will require additional work at application stage in cases affected. We are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Joe Flaherty: ...about the sector at present. We need to send a very strong message. I fear we are not delivering that as a Government. Does the Minister of State accept that the new rules on the 30 cm maximum peat depth remove large areas of potential forestry land and will have a major impact on the afforestation rate? What is the scientific benefit, if any, of moving from 45 cm of peat to 30 cm?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
...sites that were afforested were on mineral soils. There has been a transition to plant on mineral soils in the most recent forestry programmes. Certainly there will be an impact. If people have peat on their farm, they will be impacted. Generally speaking, most of the lands targeted in the afforestation programme in recent years have been mineral soils. Some soils do have 30 cm or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I would like clarification. Does the reclassification from 45 cm to 30 cm of peat apply for replanting on land that has been clear felled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: ...of land - I do not have the figure on me - under Coillte management that might not be replanted because it has been on the wrong type of land, it is too close to certain areas, there is too deep peat, etc., but the replanting obligation would secure the current state. If we meet our targets, we will have more timber. The forecast over the next 20 years to 2040 is a doubling of the amount...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Not if it has more than 30 cm of peat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: Anything more than 30 cm of peat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
...that was established in a previous programme between 2017 and 2021. The figures show that 76.6% were found to be on mineral soils and 12.8% were on organomineral soils. The remainder was on deep peats. Most of the planting that took place during the previous programme was on mineral soils. That planting accounted for a total of 76.6%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Mr. Fergus Moore: A mixture of 30 cm depth of peat and more than 30 cm depth of peat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: There are restriction in terms of the depth of peat. Anything deeper than 30 cm can no longer be planted but we can plant land under 30 cm depth of peat. There are other restrictions around special protection areas, SPAs, curlew nests, and the freshwater pearl mussel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: ...interest well in terms of where the money is being paid to put in forestry. We are paying for the planting of it and we are paying 20 years of premiums to farmers. The assessment in regard to peat-based soil is that where it is above a depth of 30 cm, from an emissions and carbon point of view, despite the fact that a tree is growing in it, it emits more carbon than it sequesters. When...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: We would be doing more harm than good if we were planting trees in heavy peat soils.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Pippa Hackett: They can be planted in the correct land. As we said, if it is over 30 cm of peat, they would not be allowed but there is a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister of State, Senator Hackett, is correct, but were spruce to be planted, the soil must have less than 30 cm of peat.