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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
either the Attorney General or the Minister of State but there seems to be a strong belief that this Bill...Does this Bill contravene a law introduced in the previous Dáil by a Fine Gael Minister?...extraction into jobs in areas such as bog rewetting and other vital climate measures which fit in with...We talk about the value peat has to the sector but the best value peat has is to our planet....Is the temporary suspension of laws, particularly EU directives, the best way to govern, lead, legislate
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
The reality is that the horticultural sector is crumbling and in dire need of assistance, particularly...First, it requests the resumption of peat harvesting from existing horticultural peat bogs for 2021,...We know most soft roots can grow without peat....We know many plants prefer to be peat free. We have become reliant on peat....I am concerned with protecting the horticultural food sector and the nursery stock sector.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
Within the horticulture industry, 17,000 people are affected by this issue....This debate is about the licensing of peat in order that we can have a horticulture industry that will...This Bill is brought forward to try to give some hope to the farming community when it comes to horticulture...Horticulture is in almost every parish in our communities....I hope that the Bill is the start of that process.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2021-07-20/4/
20 Jul 2021 -
I am the head of horticulture and plant health....When one looks at the figures the horticulture sector is putting forward to us in terms of what is required...In terms of the peat alternatives, as the Senator has said, the head of horticulture in Teagasc gave...We also issued the 2021 research call....Within that one of the areas of research was to find alternatives to peat-based growing media for horticulture
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2022-03-23/2/
23 Mar 2022 -
Regarding horticultural peat supplies, once the full implications of the High Court decision became clear...the company signalled to its domestic horticultural peat customers that it would continue to fulfil...orders of horticultural peat in 2021, while growers put in place agreements with their new suppliers....The ability of Bord na Móna to extend supply of horticultural peat to domestic growers required careful...management of horticultural grade peat reserves - a small percentage of Bord na Móna's peat stock.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
It is obvious that despite their measured tones they are horrified at the direction things have taken...To be clear, the report was about 4,000 tonnes of horticultural peat which had been imported to Ireland...That peat is now being stored in Rathowen, next to where an extraction had been abandoned in 2019.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
I oppose the export of Irish peat to the UK and other places for horticultural purposes there.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
Senator Rónán Mullen I know that, but the Minister of State's tones are measured....Peat is, of course, important to the horticultural sector, particularly in mushroom farming....We end peat extraction in Ireland and start shipping in peat from the other side of Europe....Domestic supplies of peat inevitably will be exhausted and the horticultural sector will have to rely...The Irish Farmers Association, IFA, and the horticultural sector have called for legislation in this
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
friendly with in that region, and the areas around Ballinasloe, Galway and Shannonbridge are major peat...When we talked about job losses with the closure of ESB and Bord na Móna peat operations, the Minister...My first job was as a horticulture teacher and technician....legislation or whatever, and we must get agreement on this, which is that we bring in legislation on a temporary...Bringing in peat from Latvia and dumping it on a bog in the Minister of State's county is shocking and
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
Senator Michael McDowell -----who are promoting this Bill....We now have to have some derogation simply to produce extracted peat or mined peat, if you want to use...Ministers in the various Departments, as it is a cross-departmental issue, are working on some kind of measure..., which this Bill is trying to get at, that will keep the show on the road for all those people who are...If not this Bill, which will be talked out today rather than voted on, something must happen.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2021-07-06/2/
6 Jul 2021 -
This was signalled perhaps two years ago, when Bord na Móna, for commercial reasons, ended horticultural...peat extract....I do not think the climate Bill has any bearing whatsoever on this and we should not leave anyone watching...Finally, what proportion of harvested horticultural peat was exported in 2019?...Can our guests confirm that we are looking for a solution purely for domestic horticultural peat and
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_and_the_marine/2021-02-16/3/
16 Feb 2021 -
The area of land for horticultural peat production in Ireland is 1,700 ha, which is 0.12% of total Irish...The carbon emissions from the area that produces horticultural peat is now less than 0.15% of total Irish...is that we want the legislation to be amended urgently in order that we can get back harvesting in 2021...and have sufficient peat to meet Irish demands....We are not just producing peat and nothing else.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
I acknowledge his presence here and his meeting with representatives of the horticulture industry....for us to stand up in rural Ireland and say we are trying our best to reduce our carbon count when peat...We are not talking about burning peat or that kind of scenario....This is something to ensure our horticulture industry can survive....We did appropriate work on the climate action Bill and, in many ways, got the backing of rural Ireland
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2021-09-21/3/
21 Sep 2021 -
measures....The working group produced an issues paper on the review of the use of peat moss in the horticultural...has focused on the potential of alternatives to the use of peat in the horticultural industry....for horticulture in Ireland and on the horticultural industry in Ireland, the reliance on peat in the...Climate and Communications, and of Housing, Local Government and Heritage are working on a suite of measures
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2021-07-06/2/
6 Jul 2021 -
not take the opportunity to ensure that we have robust environmental rules around the extraction of horticultural...peat and ensure that those rules are enforced and monitored in a way that you simply cannot do when...extraction for the use of fuel and energy with that of horticultural peat....We are talking about horticultural peat mass being 0.1% of the overall peat mass in this country....It is setting out that our Government's priority is tokenistic measures that do nothing for the environment
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2021-07-06/2/
6 Jul 2021 -
It is grossly unfair and hypocrisy at its best to talk about bringing in peat or substitute peat from...I have focused on mushrooms but there is also the general horticulture sector....Peat and milled peat are also used in forestry, particularly forestry nursery stock, and also in horticulture...We talk about sustainability and we discussed the climate action Bill, but this does not make sense....Basically, we have carbon leakage by importing peat substitutes.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
It is crucial that we talk about peat, transition and climate change, but who is talking about people...We are talking about peat. I live in Ballinasloe.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
saying to people that they cannot extract 0.1% of the entire peatland of the State for the purpose of horticulture...The horticulture sector would use 0.12% in total and the mushroom industry would be much less than that...We need a temporary, commonsense solution in order to sustain those jobs.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
It takes ten years for 1 cm of peat to form....We must end peat extraction and exploitation here and everywhere....I am cautious about whatever emergency measures might be taken. They must be for only one year....I think that 2021 is mentioned here....I sympathise with the horticultural sector.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2022-03-23/2/
23 Mar 2022 -
We informed them of the situation in 2020 or 2021....We ceased manufacturing products in the latter part of the summer in 2021....McNamara was on the horticultural technical group, we have come back onto the playing pitch to see what...I have outlined the measures we have taken in recent weeks to alleviate some of those challenges being
