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Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has this week provided an update in Dáil Éireann on the compensation scheme managed by his Department...

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has updated the Cabinet on progress made over the course of 2013 on the issue of turf cutting on...

The Habitats Directive was signed in 1992, and 53 raised bogs - approximately 2% of the national peatlands from which turf can be extracted - were nominated for designation...

Friday, May 17th - Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has launched a new programme on a pilot basis - the Energy Efficiency and Transition Programme - as a new element of the Cessation of Turf Cutting...

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has outlined the progress that is being made in the management....

Heritage Minister Jimmy Deenihan today welcomed the fact that the number of compensation payments made to turf cutters affected by the cessation of turf cutting on 53 raised bog special areas of conservation has now exceeded...

Relocation bog comes on stream in Offaly, first deliveries of turf now taking place in Galway...

Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht today, Tuesday 6 March, published the report of Mr. Justice John Quirke following a four day Peatland Forum on turf-cutting which was...

Minister Jimmy Deenihan today spoke to MerrionStreet.ie about the Government's compensation package for turf cutters in 53 designated Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), who cannot...

Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, responded today (Thursday 16 June 2011) to the decision of the European Commission to send Ireland a Reasoned Opinion in relation to the implementation of legislation...