This afternoon.
Leinster House. Dublin 2.
Fine Gael Senator Regina O’Doherty discusses The Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021 due to be introduced before the Seanad this afternoon
The bill hopes to end ‘Irish horticultural growers’ reliance on expensive imported peat as a growing medium for their produce by allowing them to extract Irish peat as part of a Just Transition’.
Or will it?
Peat Bill will allow extraction of Irish peat – Doherty (Fine Gael)
Meanwhile…
Converse or Vans?
We may never know.
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Madness that it ever even came to this – surely someone raised this possibility to them when they proposed banning peat extraction?
She wasn’t happy when Helen McEntee encroached on her turf!
Selling sand to the Arabs! Selling peat to the Irish !
If only the second one was actually a joke ,
Reminds me of an American relation paying €10 for a sod of Irish turf wrapped in cling film to take home and the shed outside the house full to the brim with turf
Sleán leat.
Gheobhaidh mé mo chóta.
She won’t save much turf in them shoes.
bog off Paulus ;-) anyone seen my coat ?
“Those“ shoes
We export 11 times more peat than we import don’t we?
You may have munched on a bit of that turf though GiggidyGums!
Scan the code Boxy. Munchies after the kiddies klub for the kelly’s baby. There there there. Ha haaaaa.
FGs Doherty and Farrell are both runing in Fingal in the next election. Thankfully one of them will not be elected.
Or two even.
Growers actually import peat from the UK that was originally exported to the UK from Ireland but they cannot access it directly themselves. It’s bananas. It’s Peat Tong. Something reeks …
They need to “clamp” down on this sort of thing.
“Hey, Paulus – rinne tú dearmad ar do chóta. Oh, fan – is liomsa é”
Oh you were on a sound footing with those puns, it freed* you up to make some more.
*A tad obscure maybe?
…the shoes are, own gola’s!
;-)
Feet briquettes?
I do like to nod beside a turf fire of a winter’s evening, sipping whiskey with white lemonade, listening to the Kilfenora ceili band on the radio.
It’s a VERY VERY SLOW renewable resource. Our peatlands are also a natural wetland providing biodiversity and a carbon sink. That’s what these selfish stakeholders are not getting.
We’ve done a lot of science on this in the past three decades. Hit us if you agree to pulling out the sod and we’ll answer why you should refrain.