Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the measures his Department is taking to support alternative sources of peat for the horticultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56660/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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On 17th January 2022, my colleague, Minister of State Pippa Hackett, who has responsibility for Horticulture at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, published the series of actions developed to support Irish horticultural growers who are dependent on peat.

The Working Paper setting out the Series of Actions can be found at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/39315-working-paper-to-address-challenges-related-to-peat-supply-in-the-horticulture-sector/

The actions are being led by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which is the Department with responsibility for Horticulture. The range of actions in the series are those which, in the shared view of the Ministers for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and Environment, Climate and Communications, inter alia, can reasonably, legally and practically be put in place to support the €469 million horticulture industry, the people employed and the many families that depend on this important sector.