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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-06-16/11/
16 Jun 2021 -
Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-17/9/
17 Nov 2021 -
At the same time, this Government cannot put a process in place to measure the carbon that farmers are...The Government put a working group in charge of the provision of peat for horticulture, which has recommended...Is the Government going to keep people in the horticultural business in suspense?...That is what is going on and now we have this Labour Party Bill, which is supported by Sinn Féin....Some Sinn Féin Deputies say they will vote in favour of the Bill but then they are critical of its contents
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-07-14/25/
14 Jul 2021 -
They will bring some fairness to this climate action Bill. I want to support this in terms of peat....It makes absolutely no sense that the horticulture and the nursery sectors are not able to acquire locally...harvested peat....We will only hit 20% to 25% of our target in 2021....I welcome this climate Bill.
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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 review also referred to graduating the elimination of the use of peat moss in the horticultural industry...How can the horticultural sector have any confidence in such a proposal, given what is happening with...How can we believe that when one looks at the peat contractors?...Ireland wants to be the good boy and girl of Europe and goes further than it needs to with many measures
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-03-03/35/
3 Mar 2022 -
As the Deputy is aware, extraction of peat for the Irish professional horticultural industry in recent...Approximately 60% of the value of Irish horticulture is dependent on peat as a growth medium, with the...The working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector was put in...The actions include a range of targeted measures which reflect the multifaceted nature of the problem...Most amenity horticulture growers are now using reduced peat levels in growing substrate, where the peat
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-09-30/39/
30 Sep 2021 -
Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members
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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 -
Minister of State said in his opening statement, the three Departments have been looking at a suite of measures...I know it was said the previous day and my understanding is the paper and the suite of measures have...detail I can go into, but the type of thing in the paper would include looking at whether stocks of peat...helpful; and using the expertise in various organisations, in terms of their supply chains, to see if peat...growing media for horticulture production.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-20/272/
20 Oct 2021 -
are generating challenges (volume and price) for the horticulture sector....Moss in the Horticultural Industry....Furthermore, the Department’s Research Call for 2021 included a call for further research on alternatives...to peat based growing media for horticultural production....Industry Forum, across a range of issues, including peat use.
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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 -
when we have peat here....Any of the people in the horticulture industry who are going to try to stay in the game and work with...Climate and Communications, and of Housing, Local Government and Heritage are working on a suite of measures...as regards the situation in the horticultural industry....I want to know what that suite of measures is. What is the Government proposing?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-13/11/
13 Oct 2021 -
The horticulture sector is to the forefront of our considerations....I made the remark that peat extraction is permitted within the State but the process around it is very...Deputy Eamon Ryan, to lead from that perspective in terms of how the Government responds with climate measures...The process has been litigious and that is a considerable issue in allowing peat extraction....As I said in my earlier remarks, horticulture is the fourth most valuable sector of our agriculture industry
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-07-07/19/
7 Jul 2021 -
The Bill already provides for a discrete amendment to section 690A of the Companies Act 2014, as inserted...The 2020 Act set out temporary company law measures required to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on...This period was extended to 31 December 2021.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-06/17/
6 Oct 2021 -
Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) [
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-06/17/
6 Oct 2021 -
Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) [
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-20/12/
20 May 2021 -
Hackett) It should be noted at the outset that my Department has no role in the regulation or control of peat...of peat moss....Following on from the publication of a report on the review of the use of peat moss in the horticulture...in the horticulture sector....A 50% budget increase to €9 million has been secured for 2021, which reflects the importance of the sector
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-06-28/7/
28 Jun 2021 -
The industry is heavily reliant on high-grade peat and there is currently no viable alternative to horticultural...peat....peat....The Minister must introduce measures to ensure the resumption of the harvesting of horticultural peat...We need a fair and efficient system which can allow horticultural peat harvesting to continue while the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-07-14/25/
14 Jul 2021 -
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae Yesterday, people from the peat industry were outside....I met people who have been involved in horticulture for decades. Their families are steeped in it....They wonder how in the name of God it makes sense that they must now get their peat from Scotland....The Minister is forcing them to use peat from abroad because he shut down our peat industry.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-23/10/
23 Nov 2021 -
Senator Erin McGreehan I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the Horticultural...Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021 be taken before No. 1 on the Order Paper....We all know the Bill is really important. I commend the Leader on her work on it....It is necessary to stop the hypocritical practice of importing peat.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-30/10/
30 Nov 2021 -
Senator Regina Doherty I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-06/17/
6 Oct 2021 -
postponed division relating to the Second Reading motion on the Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures...) (Amendment) Bill 2021....On Thursday, 30 September 2021, on the question that the Bill be now read a Second Time, a division was
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-12-16/14/
16 Dec 2021 -
The Appropriation Bill 2021 is an essential element of financial housekeeping that must be concluded...These Estimates also reflect the continued significant expenditure on measures to respond to Covid-19...This figure has allowed Government to continue critically important expenditure measures introduced in...The passage of the Appropriation Bill 2021 allows continued funding, in the period before the 2022 Estimates...The passing of the Bill will authorise in law all of the expenditure that has been undertaken in 2021
