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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: That explains the regular comment that Ireland is lagging behind in rolling out this technology. In Timoleague, where I am from, there is a plant that has an almost co-operative approach, with farmers bringing in waste material from piggeries and chicken farms etc. The gate fee is waived and it works really well, although it had its own challenges in getting up and running. The operators...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I know other witnesses may want to speak but that comes to my next question. I guess that is an important question for the IFA. Mr. McCarthy said it would be one third agriculture and two thirds energy. In essence, many of the feedstocks and inputs to anaerobic digestion would come from agriculture. Do the witnesses feel like a greater proportion of the emissions savings from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Absolutely. I agree. It is another big benefit of the technology. My final question is for Dr. Beausang. I thought it was vitally important that we had at least one statement to point out the potential risks. There are risks with all of these technologies. We cannot turn a blind eye to them. In doing so, Dr. Beausang also presented possible solutions like multi-species swards. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank all the witnesses for their responses. If those risks are mitigated against by displacing the leakage in the process, does Dr. Beausang believe that AD is a potentially sustainable technology that can lead to the decarbonisation of agriculture and other industries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I will follow on from what Mr. McCarthy has talked about. The reason I sought to introduce this Bill was because I see the advantages involved and the need to expedite this process, carry on with it and get going. At the same time, I would never advocate for diving into something head first without mitigation and examining the science. Mr. McCarthy recently said something interesting about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (30 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore middle management in primary schools to pre-austerity levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (30 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans are being put in place to reduce primary school class sizes by two pupils for 2023, as per the requests by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (30 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review decisions on SUSI grants that were turned down for the 2021-22 academic year due the inability of students to prove their place of independent living from October 2020 given that the housing and rental situation was abnormal due to Covid-19, as in the case of a mature student (details supplied) who would otherwise have had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for taking this Topical Issue matter. He will remember that I intended to submit this matter a number of weeks ago and the Minister was not available to take it at the time, so I said I would come back to raise this important issue, which I am doing now. I know the Government is motivated to reduce childcare costs and that the Minister is motivated to do so as well....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I appreciate the Minister's response and I do not question his motivation on better pay for staff involved in the sector and in making childcare affordable and accessible for parents. We have to come back to the facts of the matter. We had hundreds of people protesting outside Leinster House last week. Many of these operators were being sustained on the employment wage subsidy scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when Ireland's long-term climate action strategy will be published as the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the review of Ireland's energy poverty strategy; when the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if non-SMEs can be included in Brexit Adjustment Reserve funding from the processor's capital funding initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34634/22]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Social Outcome Contracts in Irish Sport: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Yes, go to our colleagues as I have just arrived at the meeting. I will speak later.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Social Outcome Contracts in Irish Sport: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I feel we are all going to be leaving this meeting with a Donegal accent.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Social Outcome Contracts in Irish Sport: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Exactly, you could have a Cork accent. I took time to read the opening statements. I apologise for missing the initial opening statements. It was unavoidable but I did read them. I apologise if I am asking questions that have already been asked. Certainly, it strikes me, as a project and idea, as something we can really get behind. It is our job to dig deep and find out if there are...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Social Outcome Contracts in Irish Sport: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I am very conscious of time as I am running out of it. I appreciate that. In fairness, that is a very satisfactory answer to what could have been a tricky question. Mr. McGroarty mentioned that with this project, sometimes it is hard to make policy now for what will bring long-term benefits and savings, particularly in relation to health and well-being. He mentioned a figure of overall...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Social Outcome Contracts in Irish Sport: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: It answers it 100%. That is it. This investment saves long term. Whether it is on an individual scale or the grander scale, it saves in potential health costs down the line, which is certainly one of the main pluses of a scheme such as this. Mr. McGroarty outlined very well the inclusivity part of it. He spoke about the outcomes from the perspectives of mental health, general health...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: This Government made a promise to tackle the cost of childcare, and we will do that. In doing so, however, we must ensure there is an early childhood care and education, ECCE, sector there to provide the service. If the current core funding model was fit for purpose, we would not have had a situation where hundreds of our early educators and childcare providers descended on Leinster House...