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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I wonder if I am about to refer to surprised any of the witnesses, including Mr. Gildea, who has been ahead of the curve in the west. The day a few of us were out with officials from Gas Networks Ireland, there was a very disappointing revelation. In 2018, we were told that a connection point was going to be put in at Athenry by Gas Networks Ireland. The map we saw the other day, which the...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know Cork has everything, but I am referring to the biggest area of production. The connections on the map came from Cork right up towards Kildare and Dublin. The area from Louth and Monaghan across to Donegal and down the west coast into Limerick and Kerry was all left out of the connection area. I thought that was disappointing. There is an operator in Ballinrobe and another in...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is direct injection that I am on about. There was to be a place that a lorry could come to in Athenry. This was explained to us here in 2017 or 2018. The idea was that the gas could be transferred from the lorry to the grid. A place was to be earmarked, but it has disappeared off the map altogether. All I could see on the day we were with Gas Networks Ireland officials was a series of...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one thing that needs to be noted, and in Mr. Gildea's case, he did an EIA, screening out and everything, is that everything is contained within the site, be it Mr. Gildea's or any place there are anaerobic digesters. Water cannot run around the place because it is all contained. It is in tanks, and you have Bauer tanks to basically slap the pipes in against each other. Mr. Gildea...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Nephin Energy going to take in slurry?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Chicken litter and whatever. Is slurry being taken in from farmers?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that done for free?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am very into the pelleting, and I know the energy used is a problem. Can the witnesses see a day when that will happen?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: On the point about going from different places to the grid, what is the maximum it can go? I am talking about viability.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the maximum?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer with a TB restricted herd can sell cattle directly to a controlled finishing unit with no conditions attached, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the 30-day TB test window (details supplied); if marts will be allowed to operate under the same conditions as a farmer selling direct to a feedlot; and...

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will give the members directions.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: How does that go? Does it send out a lorry? What do the farmers get back?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours a person (details supplied) has completed in both national school and in secondary school since their time registered with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no acute asthma management plan in place, in and being adhered to in University College Hospital Galway; or if there is such a plan, if she could provide a copy of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55678/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 397. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown, by location of each CR hub and its corresponding dedicated CR WTE allocation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56461/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 398. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed list of hub sites and identify which locations are currently providing phase III CR (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who completed a full phase III CR programme during 2024 in the community hub CR setting (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56463/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I think everyone recognises that we need people coming into this country through the visa system. We need doctors, nurses, people in hospitality and all different types of workers. They are welcome in this country. However, from what we have read last night, we need to have a conversation about illegal immigration. Most politicians are afraid at the moment, as are ordinary people. When...