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Cessation of Turf cutting - grants. Delayed.

  • 21-10-2014 11:56am
    #1
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭


    For anybody who gave up cutting turf and applied for the Government compensation scheme.

    Was talking to the people at the Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht .. was wondering what happened to this years grant money.

    Its delayed apparently awaiting sign-off. Has anybody got this years money paid ?

    I am seriously suspicious if this was a bit of a con .. just to get us out of the bogs .. eg. they gave us the first years money (last summer) ..and then let us fcek off!! :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    Not involved in this but I'd go back cutting again if that was the case.


  • #3
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    Not involved in this but I'd go back cutting again if that was the case.
    It would be cheaper to pay up the grant than pay EU fine.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,368 ✭✭✭naughto


    Get the grant and cut turf it's the only way to do it.how much of a grant is there is it enough yo cover getting oil I think I no the answer to that


  • #5
    Capercaille
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    naughto wrote: »
    Get the grant and cut turf it's the only way to do it.how much of a grant is there is it enough yo cover getting oil I think I no the answer to that

    Widespread turf-cutting in the SAC raised bogs this year, whether people have got the grant or not. People had years to prepare for the cessation of turfcutting on the remnants of the SAC raised bogs. Turfcutting illegal on only 2% of raised bogs in Ireland. No wonder the grant is late with the total disregard for this near extinct habitat.


  • #6
    Capercaille
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    blue5000 wrote: »
    It would be cheaper to pay up the grant than pay EU fine.

    With the widespread criminal damage being done to the Raised Bogs SAC's, the sooner the Government gets fined the better. They will have to do something then besides sending Gardaí to the bogs and watching people break the Law.


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  • #7
    bcklschaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    Capercaille wrote: »
    Widespread turf-cutting in the SAC raised bogs this year, whether people have got the grant or not. People had years to prepare for the cessation of turfcutting on the remnants of the SAC raised bogs. Turfcutting illegal on only 2% of raised bogs in Ireland. No wonder the grant is late with the total disregard for this near extinct habitat.


    The big issue I think is that there is one rule for Bord na Mona (who is by far the biggest turf cutter in the country) and another for the little guys who are being thrown off bogs they have cut for years.


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