Results 201-218 of 218 for speaker:Paraic Brady
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Would it be €20 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Twenty percent of €20 million is €4 million. Who is putting up the rest of the money? It can only be led by a developer, likely a multinational company. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: We will be bringing multinational companies into our country to provide us with biogas and expect our farming and urban communities to buy into this. This is what we are saying here. The witnesses have said there is a pot of roughly €40 million for this. It takes €20 million to put up one plant so we will get roughly two plants, 20% of two plants. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: The €40 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: How much of that €40 million from the first round has been drawn down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: It will not be drawn down until the end of 2025.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: It has until the end of 2025, which is in two months' time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: What are the chances of those projects hitting the target there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: The chances are that they will not be there because they will not have been finished. Regarding EPA licences and one thing and another, as we discussed with the previous set of witnesses here, some EPA licence holders are already recycling the food waste and one thing and another. As they are in communities already and have an EPA licence, is there a thought process that they might be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: They have EPA licences to take in waste food and other waste product. To streamline this whole thing, there should be joined-up thinking as they already have an EPA licence and are working within the conditions. Is there room to put up one of these plants on that site? It bewilders me that we are looking at multinationals coming in to build these plants. The beneficiaries of these plants...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: We have said that the projects are not there yet for the farming community.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Is it correct that we envisage having 200 plants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: What would be the average scale of those 200 plants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Are the new industrial plants which are coming in at the minute around the major cities or are they off key networks like the ESB's?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Have the plants that have the planning and everything engaged with communities? That is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: When grass, food waste and whatever is brought in and that end product goes back out, it is in liquid form. It does not go back out in pellet form.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Therefore, it has not been drawn down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: However, in most of the plants at the moment, what is going out is in liquid form. On water quality, would it not be viable and feasible that it be put in pellet form? As the witnesses know, when it goes out in liquid form, it can run off whereas in pellet form it has to digest down. I would like the figures from the plants for 2026 and where we are at with them. Unless there is buy-in...