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IRELAND NEEDS TO maintain its traditional peatlands and their rich biodiversity while supporting a just transition for those who solely depend on turf as a source of fuel.
That’s what a Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss has heard as it concluded its fourth meeting with an in-depth discussion on restoring and regenerating Ireland’s peatlands.
Representatives from Irish Rural Link, Community Wetlands Forum, and Irish Peatlands Conservation Council told the meeting about the history and heritage of Irish bogs and about the importance of peatlands for Irish biodiversity.
Today’s session followed a meeting yesterday where the focus was on the voices and perspectives of farmers and rural communities around agricultural landscapes.
Speaking yesterday, the Irish Farming Association’s Environment Chair Paul O’Brien called for a “collaborative approach to nature conservation”.
He added: “Too often, this debate is dominated by extreme voices that don’t allow a mature discussion to take place. Farmers who are playing their part in improving biodiversity deserve recognition, not vilification.”
Speaking about the weekend’s meeting, the Chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, Dr. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, described it as “one of the most intense and significant meetings of the Assembly”.
A range of speakers and representatives spoke about how they are managing the challenge of biodiversity loss through agricultural practices.
Dr Ní Shúilleabháin said: “It was crucially important that we heard from multiple angles in order to inform our recommendations that we will make in our final report.
“In particular the discussion on peatlands brought home to all of us the history and heritage of these special lands, and the need to value our heritage while also ensuring we protect the lands that will be left to future generations.
“As the Assembly is tasked with recommending solutions that will be implemented, this weekend’s discussions were a hugely important part of this process.”
The penultimate meeting of the Assembly will take place in three weeks and will focus on freshwater, marine, and the urban environment.
The Assembly is the due to complete its work by the end of the year, when it will send its final report and recommendations to the Houses of the Oireachtas.
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Watch the Sindo reel in horror this weekend at the above drop in prices lol
Apartments were 44.3% to high in February 2007
And they will continue to fall once the new Central Bank mortgage lending rules come into play next month
That would be good but I doubt that will happen. Lot’s of cash buyers on the Dublin market many from abroad.
CGT exemption ended this month
Most cash buyers will now flock elsewhere for more attractive tax breaks
I wouldn’t expect prices to continue to fall Snowball. Not until the supply shortage is addressed, and that will take at least 2-3 years if they ramp up building now. It just means that the small pool of available houses for sale in Dublin will only be attainable by a select few who have access to the 20%. They exist.
Property prices falling?
What about the exorbitant rent I have to pay?
As my Father once said
” No matter how tough life gets, never resort to paying another persons mortgage for them “
Really!? My father used to say ‘No matter how bad it gets never pay a bank 100s of thousand of euro in mortgage interest in order to take a highly leveraged bet on one type of asset class, son’ and then added ‘Mortgage interest is dead money’
Rent will increase from now, which is what central bank wants !
Atleast i won’t be paying rent when i’m 50 :)
no, just property tax
I need to live in that highly leveraged asset… I can’t live in a pension fund. High house prices / house prices speculation is an absolute scourge to real investment in the economy.
Which estate agent do you work for Shill?
It just shows the incredible instability of the housing market in general. If the rises were based on the real values of the houses then it would be a stable rise.
Dublin is just one bug bubble go else where and see how low prices are.
“BIG”. Damn autocorrect
I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in Ireland.
0.1%……
Prices usually stabilise or a tiny fall like 0.1% this time of year. Let’s see will they continue to rise 15% plus in 2015.
Hardly a massive fall 0.1% hopefully it will pick up again in the New Year.Think we’ve all had more than enough property drops since 2007,lets pump this bad boy up again to 2006 levels.
This is hardly news, common sense that prices would fall in the weeks before the new Central Bank Mortgage Regulations come into play as sellers push to try and offload.
They’ll continue to drop as the vast majority will no longer be able to afford to buy! It’s crippling potential buyers and also going to send rent prices even higher!
The sooner it gets axed the better!
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