Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, under the proposed new regulations on the sale of turf, a vendor of turf who sources their product from a supplier who has turbary rights will continue to be permitted to sell turf to customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56579/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The new regulations on the sale of solid fuels for domestic heating in Ireland came into operation on 31 October 2022. They have introduced minimum standards that apply across all solid fuels, to ensure that the most polluting can no longer be made available on the Irish market and to assist the public in transitioning to less polluting alternatives.

The regulations allow those with turbary rights to continue to cut turf for their own use and to gift or sell turf to others. While traditional, local and customary practices may continue, the regulations prohibit the sale of turf by way of the internet or other media, or from a retail premises, including shops, garages and filling stations, fuel yards, public houses and other public places.