A Fine Gael senator has written to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue ahead of a...
May 23, 2022
The Kildare Growers group has called for emergency legislation to allow harvesting of indigenous peat for horticulture as the war...
March 14, 2022
An independent TD has called on the government to temporarily suspend the current system of regulation that is preventing the...
March 10, 2022
Senator Regina Doherty has called on government ministers to ensure that adequate supplies of horticultural peat continue to be made...
March 1, 2022
Aontú has called on the government to take action over the worsening peat crisis which the party said is putting...
February 8, 2022
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) has said it does not support the final report on peat use in horticulture...
January 20, 2022
Growing Media Ireland (GMI) has said actions proposed by the government to support horticultural growers “will cause environmental catastrophe and...
January 18, 2022
Restrictions on harvesting horticultural peat have been branded a “fiasco” by independent TD, Sean Canney, as he highlighted the negative...
December 20, 2021
All political parties are being called on to support a bill introduced in the Seanad today that, if passed, will...
November 23, 2021
A new bill is set to be introduced that will allow temporary peat extraction for horticultural purposes. The Horticultural Peat...
Minister of State with responsibility for heritage Malcolm Noonan has being told that he “cannot wish alternatives to peat into...
November 18, 2021
A report has called for peat harvesting for the horticulture sector to resume in the short term, stating that two...
The chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Jackie Cahill, says he has written to...
July 21, 2021
17,000 jobs in rural Ireland “remain at risk”, the group representing horticultural peat producers has warned. Growing Media Ireland (GMI)...
There is no “quick fix” solution to the crisis facing Ireland’s horticultural peat sector, Growing Media Ireland (GMI) has warned....
July 20, 2021
Research must be applied to find alternatives to peat for the Irish horticultural industry – but in the meantime Irish...
July 13, 2021
Horticulture growers have stressed the urgent need for action to be taken with regard to the harvesting of peat in...
Halting peat harvesting in Ireland and importing it from elsewhere for the horticultural sector is “a case of cutting off...
June 30, 2021
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