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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Are facilities such as anaerobic digesters available to support what Cré wants to happen and to enable it to go ahead? When the representatives of Cré talk about composting, they are talking about anaerobic digestion and the aerobic version of the process. Have they encountered problems in getting the facilities in question? I will explain why I am asking that question. Local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: What information is available on the heavy metals and pathogens which might end up getting into the water supply? Having examined this issue, I have found that the only way a digestate fertiliser type of material from an anaerobic digester containing heavy metals has been dealt with over the years is to use it on land growing a product which will not be eaten such as willow or other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Sewage sludge with heavy metal content could be spread on land growing biomass rather than on land to be used for something subsequently eaten.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: If heavy metals are present will it cause a problem down the line? Are we codding ourselves? Will it just be burned into the atmosphere afterwards? How deeply have people examined this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Management of Sewage Sludge: Cré (28 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The issue of reputation must be dealt with if we want to achieve something with this. At present one could come up with any word in the dictionary and it would be more acceptable than "anaerobic digestion" in Tibohine in County Roscommon and one would win a prize. It is the enemy, because attempts were made to just put a plant there and get away with it even though it was a daft place to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: 3. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with regard to the three draft reports produced by his Department, his views on these reports; what he expects the outcome of this process will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4338/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I am delighted to be able to address this issue. I attempted to do so twice when the reports came out but it was not deemed important enough to be discussed in the Dáil. It is good that we can talk about it today. There is much talk about value for money in Ireland, as it is very important to people. When we consider the estimated €500 million...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I would really appreciate if the Minister did not, when asked a question, come to the Chamber and read verbatim from a script which he does not even understand. If the idea of the Habitats Directive is to preserve bogs, I have no problem with that, as they are fantastic habitats which need to be preserved. There should also be room for turf cutters. If the idea of preservation is to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: That is not the issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Not according to my barrister.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: It is of no help, and I do not appreciate that every time I come to the House to represent turf cutters, and also to represent an organisation whose chair was described as a hero and a patriot by the Taoiseach, that the Minister calls us criminals. If the Minister wants to find a solution he must stop calling us criminals.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Let the courts decide that and do not predetermine what the courts have decided.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I stand here today proud of the fact that active raised bog habitat has grown on my bog. On a bog of which the Minister is in charge, it is down by 91.6%. It is time for the Minister to resign. It is time for the National Parks & Wildlife Service to step back because it does not have a clue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I am one of those people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: That is on the bogs the Minister owns.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: The RPS Group is appalled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Does the Minister want to talk to me, a criminal?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Calling me a criminal does not help. An olive branch is long overdue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: I am making great progress on my bog.
- Other Questions: Turf Cutting Issues (29 Jan 2014)
Luke Flanagan: Can I ask a question please?