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- Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: For the record, my wife has just texted me to say shame on me and that my dogs are microchipped.
- Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Can that please be added to the minutes of the meeting?
- Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: The role of local authorities was touched on when dog wardens were mentioned. Are local authorities not doing enough? Could they do more? Are they key actors in this problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance today. I live along the River Suir but I am also here to show solidarity with the angler groups along the River Blackwater. In essence, what we have here is the murder of 40,000 fish and the murderer is still at large. To catch the murderer, you need evidence. I want to focus on the way the evidence was collected. I have a few quick questions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Was this one individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: What did that one individual then do over the next two to three hours?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Is this within a 1 km stretch or a 2 km stretch? How soon before he walked the 26 km stretch that was under investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I just want to understand. I also want to understand when Cork County Council, the EPA and the Marine Institute were on-site and then I will talk about the evidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Was it a day, 24 hours or 48 hours? Was this one individual carrying out a visual inspection of all the different discharge points?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: My time is limited. Was there no collection of physical evidence by this particular individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Okay. I just want to move on. How quickly was Cork County Council on-site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: In the immediate three to four hours after the officer was on-site, to what extent were samples taken?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: This is really important. How many samples were taken in the hours immediately after Cork County Council was on-site? Where were those samples taken from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: How many samples were taken and what was the size of that sample?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I want to come to what is in the report. I presume the Marine Institute is responsible for tissue sampling and not for the environmental and chemical analysis. It talks about how samples were sent for independent analysis on 900 different parameters. I am trying to understand about the samples that were sent away. We know this is where the problem was. It was not a tissue issue. Where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I really want to come back-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: The critical time for taking water samples was immediately after going on-site. The critical place to take water samples was along the whole area of investigation, particularly at the discharge points. Were there any samples taken within 24 hours along the river and along the 26 km stretch, particularly at the discharge points? How many companies are licensed by the EPA along this 26 km...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: There are 31, okay. Were samples taken at the discharge points from those 31 plants within 24 hours of the notification of this kill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: One sample was taken?