Results 1-20 of 263 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: When we read the stark figures on men's health in Ireland, they should be ringing alarm bells across the Government. The statistics we have are not just numbers; they are a national crisis. Every one of those numbers represents a family member, friend or loved one. Let us be clear about the reality facing men in Ireland. Men account for four in every five suicide deaths in Ireland. Men...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I, too, visited the plant in north Dublin. When I went there, I noticed there was very little smell. That said, however, there will be a smell from lorries that pass houses on their way to a plant. Near where I worked previously, there was a factory close to my house and the smell was horrendous. As much as complaints were made to the EPA, there was very little done. There was spillage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: They will be obliged-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It is a little bit like putting the cart before the horse with the regulations. Like Deputy Aird, I am at so many meetings about wind turbines. We are looking back to 2007 for regulations on them. They were half the size but now they are double the size. As we have to meet our environment targets, there is absolutely no urgency to updating those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is there one regulation they have all fed into for these?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: That should be done immediately. I have two other questions. Are the 200 plants large or is it a mixture of both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: What is the incentive for farmers who are using grain, grass, maize or whatever they are going to use for it? The plant in north Dublin was not charging for the product that was coming out at the end; that was going to have to go back. However, it alluded to the fact that while the farmer is sending in slurry, he will have an obligation to take back X amount of it and will have to buy it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: At the moment it is 20% for the grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: In other European countries that is a lot more. It is 40% or 60% in some situations. Can we see that moving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is that the total for a year or for so many projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Of the 18 projects that are planned or are in the process of being built, how many are small farmers or small yards or how many are the bigger plants? How much international money or investors have gone into those 18 projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I would not need to know the company in particular but just whether it was international or not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank Ms Hamill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Was it €40 million from European funding?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide data on the current usage of public bus transport services between Carlow and Dublin City; the details on when and the way in which additional capacity is added or scaled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56897/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a section 317 review of a person (details supplied); if it will be completed before his illness benefit is stopped in the coming weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56291/25]

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Just recently, the IFA and the Irish Grain Growers, among others, were invited in to the agriculture committee to tell us what we already knew, namely, that the tillage industry is on its knees. We heard of the struggles facing the tillage sector. I listened to the Minister’s own colleagues call out for support for farmers struggling in every sense of the word. Members from all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank our witnesses for coming in today. I visited the Bia Energy plant in north Dublin and have seen how it works and the idea behind it, albeit on a larger scale. My first question is for Mr. Phelan. He spoke about the cost of these plants but at what point does Europe put its hand in its pocket to support us in reaching our targets? The Irish Government's 50% grant aid is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The bigger scale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Is that why there is a smaller amount in the summer than in the winter?