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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The profile of our country is such that it is a mishmash of roads. Ours is a very small country. Surely there must be some way around that. It is a hindrance for operators that want to tap into their own solar farms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Is there any other jurisdiction where a solution to this has been found?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: To finish, will section 37(1) address the road issue as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses. I apologise for coming in a little late. I may give them something to work out first, if that is all right. Councillor Browne touched on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise, Deputy Browne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: An example of a 100-cow dairy farm was given. There are approximately 18,000 dairy farms in the country. The witnesses might work out on the back of a fag packet what tonnage of CO2 per annum might be generated if all that was capitalised on. Hopefully, Dr. Shalloo heard the witnesses speaking about solar energy earlier. We asked them about the return on this. They stated that a 50 acre...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: On the education side, has Teagasc plans to scale this up now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It is probably the most attractive diversification that is out there. That is why we really need to see Teagasc taking a strong lead on it. Using the back of the packet of cigarettes model, how many tonnes of emissions are we looking at if we mobilise every rooftop on a dairy farm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is a considerable return.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is 0.1 million tonnes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: We are just asking about agriculture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: My final question is in respect of the dairy farms, as they are a very specific type of farm. Have there been any efforts - I am sure some have been made - globally which Teagasc may have seen where there has been a co-operative effort by dairy farms to reach that scenario, which would be a utopian one for us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Is there anything similar globally to the Irish utopian example where something like that has been done with dairy farmers or where they in the process of doing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank our witnesses very much.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his work on this Bill to date. The Bill is very welcome but it has caused a great deal of concern among small business owners. We are all aware well aware that the bulk of businesses are small, owner-operated businesses. This will pose an additional headache for them while at the same time they recognise that the Bill and the statutory right to sick leave...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: This is important legislation. We have been an outlier in this area for too long, so it is important that we get this right. A review process has been built into this and all other legislation. We will learn from this one's review process as the situation involves. As Deputy Shanahan said, the overwhelming concern being raised by small businesses – most of them are micro...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I agree with several of the speakers, including the Minister of State, that this Bill is very much about balance. There has to be balance in this. I remember my late mother telling me that if I wanted to find out how popular I was, I should go into politics or open a business. I would sooner be in politics because it is very tough trying to run a business at the minute. We have to accept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: That is probably comes down to the next question. This is like the leaving certificate again for Dr. Upton. Moving on to the next point, we will probably need to marry up the whole process of educating farmers to go solar, together with everything that we are looking at so far in respect of CAP reform. Are we are not looking at a model in which farmers are directly rewarded for an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank all the witnesses for coming in, all of whom have been hugely informative. I have a couple of, hopefully, short questions and they can come back to me at the end with the answers. On the zero-carbon initiative, obviously we were aspiring to it at every level in construction. This question is probably for Ms Phelan. On the deep retrofit that is being done across the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Before we move on, perhaps the Green Building Council can give an insight into the pre-demolition audits, whether anybody collates those figures and how many have been requested.