Horticulture Sector
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

This question is on the horticulture industry. There is a ban proposed on the harvesting of peat for horticultural purposes and plans for it are very much advanced. There has been a conflation of peat extraction for this purpose and its extraction for energy purposes. They are two different worlds. What does the Government plan to do on this, particularly where the mushroom sector, which is incredibly important in my own constituency, is concerned?

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03