Results 1-20 of 218 for speaker:Paraic Brady
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: I wish to set the record straight regarding rural pursuits and fox hunting. I have watched a number of debates over the last number of weeks and I have listened to media reports of foxes in fields being torn apart. We have listened to all this negativity in the media regarding fox hunting, which is described as a sport.It is not a sport and it is not done as a sport. The media has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Having listened to all of the commentary here today, there seems to be a need for regulations specific to biogas. The witness are saying that the EPA has no powers. If the EPA has no powers, do the local authorities have powers? If a plant is not within regulation, somebody has the power to close it down. People cannot operate something that nobody has control over. I ask the witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: I ask Mr. Mooney to give us an idea of what it takes to run a plant of that size, roughly. What is coming in to the plant to run it? How many hectares will it take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: I ask Ms Kelleher to give us those figures again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Please give us that figure again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Just before my time runs out, I have another question. The biomethane strategy was published last year. There must be guidelines within that because there has to be guidelines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: So there are no guidelines within that strategic plan. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: To go back to my earlier question, is it the EPA or the local authorities who are in control? There has to be somebody-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Does the plant still operate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Regarding the location of plants in towns and cities, are there any regulations around that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Even though there is an odour-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: The witnesses are saying that they have German data and data from across Europe which shows that mistakes have been made. We are going to make the same mistakes going forward, only on a larger scale. Is that basically what they are telling us here today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: That is very worrying for us, going forward. I am sorry, but as Senators we have to leave now to vote. We will leave the witnesses in the good hands of our TDs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: I thank the Cathaoirleach. My understanding of what the witnesses are saying is that they are looking for a Government, or Government-led, intervention and policies around that, with strict lines on one thing and another. An area we have not touched on, although perhaps it was discussed while I was away, is that we have businesses that use high-power gas or whatever to work their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: All waste facilities already have an EPA licence to take in waste and the product is already coming on site. Thought should be put into this. When waste is coming on site and being taken off site - it is gathered on one side and then taken out en masse - consideration must be given to whether it can be used for generation. Even if it is only going into houses in the local village, some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They said earlier that the guidelines are not in place and yet we have 18 projects on the ground with no guidelines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Paraic Brady: Let us be quite clear on this: the witnesses have said the guidelines are not there yet, but we have projects that have already started without guidelines. The planning guidelines that are there at the moment are regulations. The witnesses have been asked if they work with communities and they said they hope that communities will be involved, but some of the guidelines are not there yet....
- 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?