AIE: Submissions to Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) on Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan

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AIE 046 2026

Under the AIE Regs to request the following

1) The recommendations of the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) on Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan (as finalised and submitted to Minister O’Sullivan in Qtr1 2026)

2) All submissions, responses and presentations made by Bord na Mona to the IAC

3) All submissions, responses and presentations made by Coillte to the IAC

4) Any elements of the current Letters of Expectation for Bord na Mona and Coillte that conflict with Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan

Note: Coillte submission not provided in AIE and not listed in Schedule

260520 AIE request 046 2026 Internal Review Decision Letter – Annul Previous DecisionDownload
Schedule of RecordsDownload

Dave is Associate Professor in agri-sustainability, Co-Director on the Agricultural Science BSc

Record 1-2025.04.28_Public_Lands_SynthesisDownload

John Reilly – Head of Renewable Energy, BnM

Mark McCorry – Ecology Team Manager for Bord na Mona

Record 2 – 20250924_IAC-Slides_v1Download
Record 3 – 2025-10-28 BnM Response to IAC on NRLDownload
Record 4 – 20251231 Deer management – IAC update REQUIRES DAFM INPUTDownload

AIE: list of all powered bog drainage operations (where a mechanical pump exists, and is connected to electrical supply), currently underway on BnM properties (to include any underway via joint ventures with PowerGen, Coillte, ESB, OPW or others)

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AIE Request COSEC00292

Note: list of “powered” BnM peatland drainage projects so it’s not the full dataset because BnM also have non-powered drainage schemes based on reprofiling the bogs with machines to drain into nearest rivers

Data points are significant, in the context of recent discussions about moving BnM land to NPWS

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/04/30/semi-state-lands-targeted-for-takeover-in-nature-restoration-drive

Obviously it would be weird for NPWS to take over BnM peatland drainage/ destruction projects…

Plus there’s an issue here in that BnM is receiving funding for both peatland restoration AND peatland drainage

Note on the data: 

The five bog groups being drained are spread across the Irish Midlands:

Blackwater (28 drainage points) — west Offaly, around Shannonbridge
Boora (9 points) — central Offaly, east of Shannonbridge toward Tullamore
Mountdillon (40 points) — Co. Longford, around Lanesboro/Roscommon border
Littleton (9 points) — Co. Tipperary, south of the midlands
Derrygreenagh (12 points) — Co. Westmeath, east midlands around Rochfordbridge

One point to flag: P47/004 (Littleton) plots unusually far south near the Waterford/Kilkenny border — the northing value (122,732) in the source data looks suspect compared to the other Littleton points and likely may be a data entry error worth verifying.

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AIE: Wicklow to Greystones Greenway | Non-Statutory Public Consultation | Public Consultation Submissions AIE 2026.04

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National Land Cover Map

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A National Land Cover service for the Republic of Ireland indicating whatever is physically present on the Earth’s surface, whether this is natural vegetation, freshwater or non-living surfaces. The land cover of the Republic of Ireland is incredibly diverse, including forestry, peat bogs, grassland, sand dunes, mud flats, salt marsh, bracken, hedgerows and more, as well as man-made structures and cultivated fields. All of these different types of land cover have been categorised into 36 land classifications and mapped in detail.

The information in this service is based on Series 2 imagery collected circa 2018, for full details on how the data was collated see our National Land Cover storymap. The National Land Cover Map Legend can be seen and downloaded here. The National Land Cover Map of Ireland final report can be seen and downloaded here.The National Land Cover Dataset was produced by Tailte Éireann, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and with the support of members of the cross-governmental national land cover and habitat mapping (NLCHM) working group.Note: the MapGenie National Land Cover 2018 (ITM) service is restricted by default to a maximum scale of 1:10,000. This can be adjusted independently by individual users once the service has been registered in the users own ArcGIS Online account or Esri Developer account. There is no default restriction on the minimum scale threshold.

https://data.gov.ie/dataset/high-value-dataset-national-land-cover-2018/resource/6cf2589a-3829-4b5e-a594-d6b394cf178c

Electricity Network Resilience & Forestry Briefing (21st Aug 2025)

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Forestry Sectoral Action Work Plan – Forestry Division | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (May 2025)

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The Sectoral Action Work Plans (SAWP) are national scale plans, which provide for the tracking of the actions assigned to
the sectors in the Water Action Plan 2024 (WAP).

The objective of the SAWP is to ensure that the sector over time will no longer be a significant pressure on water status and will include information on how the sector will address all waterbodies at risk from that pressure, in line with the WFD objectives.

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