Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quantity and cost of peat imported and exported in each of the past fifteen years, in tabular form. [41708/24]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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These figures, provided by the Central Statistics Office, refer to imports and exports under combined nomenclature (CN) code 27030000 - Peat, including peat litter, whether or not agglomerated.

This description includes all types of peat and does not differentiate between peat used for horticulture or that used for heating. This description also includes briquettes. Peat agglomerates also includes peat substrates where peat is mixed with other materials such as fertilizer, perlite, sand, lime, wood fibre, bark. By way of example a peat reduced substrate mix of 30% Wood Fibre, 30% Bark & 40% Peat is still classed under the CN code 27030000.