Eamon Ryan says the Government has NOT paused plans to ban the sale of turf, merely that it will have worked on finer details before plans announced in September. People who own bogland will still be able to cut turf on their land; clampdown is on industrial sale and distribution pic.twitter.com/1LeuaUSl4f
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) April 14, 2022
This morning.
Earlier…
From top: Eamon Ryan and Paschal Donohoe
This morning.
Via BreakingNews:
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that the Government will consider a detailed report about turf burning after Easter at which time a decision will be made about the proposed ban on the sale of turf.
Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Mr Donohoe said that no proposal in relation to a pause on the ban, as reportedly advocated by the Tánaiste, had come to Government.
However, on Newstalk Breakfast Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said there would be no pause in plans to ban the sale of turf. The comment by Mr Varadkar had been made at a Fine Gael meeting, not at a public meeting, he added.
Mr Ryan said that the concerns that people would be criminalised needed to be addressed and the details of the regulations better communicated.
Anyone?
No proposal to pause turf ban has come to Government, says Donohoe (BreakingNews)
Meanwhile…
“It is the case, as we move through this year and maybe beyond this, that we won’t be able to insulate our people, our economy, entirely from the effect of the war in Ukraine and what that means in effect for the price of energy,” says Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe pic.twitter.com/F30QUX0uF9
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) April 14, 2022
Um.
This morning.
