Agri-Business
The latest report into the Irish horticulture sector "completely failed to accomplish" its aims,...
Groups representing the Irish horticulture sector have presented an Oireachtas committee with...
The "severe pressure" that horticulture growers are under was highlighted to Minister for Foreign...
A Fine Gael senator has written to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie...
The Kildare Growers group has called for emergency legislation to allow harvesting of indigenous...
Agri Politics
An independent TD has called on the government to temporarily suspend the current system of...
Senator Regina Doherty has called on government ministers to ensure that adequate supplies of...
Aontú has called on the government to take action over the worsening peat crisis which the party...
Environment
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) has said it does not support the final report on...
Growing Media Ireland (GMI) has said actions proposed by the government to support horticultural...
Restrictions on harvesting horticultural peat have been branded a "fiasco" by independent TD, Sean...
All political parties are being called on to support a bill introduced in the Seanad today that, if...
A new bill is set to be introduced that will allow temporary peat extraction for horticultural...
Minister of State with responsibility for heritage Malcolm Noonan has being told that he "cannot...
A report has called for peat harvesting for the horticulture sector to resume in the short term,...
Rural Life
The chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Jackie...
17,000 jobs in rural Ireland "remain at risk", the group representing horticultural peat producers...
There is no "quick fix" solution to the crisis facing Ireland’s horticultural peat sector,...
Research must be applied to find alternatives to peat for the Irish horticultural industry - but in...
Horticulture growers have stressed the urgent need for action to be taken with regard to the...
Halting peat harvesting in Ireland and importing it from elsewhere for the horticultural sector is...
The harvesting of peat for horticultural purposes “must resume immediately” due to there being...
TD Jackie Cahill yesterday (Thursday, February 4) rebuked the decision to shut down peat production...
