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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Deputies, we need to focus on talking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank everybody for the contributions, questions and answers. I thank the witnesses for travelling to this meeting. I need to move onto the next session. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for taking part.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I thank each organisation for their presentations and for taking the time to travel and be part of this meeting. The whole incident of the fish kill was so traumatic for people locally. It seems to add insult to injury that the investigation came up inconclusive. It is frustrating and leaves so many unanswered questions hanging over different organisations....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: About one in four or one in five would end up-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: One in three end up with no clear direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: That is going to leave question marks hanging over everyone on it. What about the possibility of reoccurrence if IFI is not able to say where it came from or what brought it about? What is the probability of reoccurrence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: The point was well made earlier about collecting samples or not taking water samples in the first couple of days. IFI would not be the only ones out there taking samples, though. The EPA would have gone towards the different licence holders and approached them about their data. They would be taking samples of the discharges from the river, as would other organisations, I imagine. Was it a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: it is not so much the EPA’s sampling, but the other organisations that would be taking water samples. For example, Irish Water would take samples and test the water before putting it into a drinking water supply. Other organisations in their discharge would be taking water samples. What I am getting at is whether there are samples of water out there all the time that are available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: -----that one would expect. The report indicates that IFI is scheduling electrofishing in the Allow river. Why in that river and not any other river? The Blackwater is not being scheduled until next year. What is the IFI scheduling that for and what is it looking for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: A number of people have repeatedly raised with me their concern about a delay in acting and, most importantly, whether everything that could have been done was done. It is a point that arose earlier in one of the submissions. Do people feel that everything that could have been done was done to identify the source?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: It sounds like there are not water samples-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (30 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will end the mandatory retirement age of 70 for Bus Éireann drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51708/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pigmeat Sector (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to consider supporting producers of pig products impacted by Chinese tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50805/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pigmeat Sector (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: China is the sixth largest destination for our agrifood exports, worth over €613 million, and pigmeat is a huge part of that trade, at €102 million last year. The imposition by China recently of what it considers anti-dumping tariffs will really challenge that trade. What efforts are being made to end those tariffs?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pigmeat Sector (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: These tariffs are a huge burden on the export of pig products to China. Two obvious supports are needed: first, the ending of the tariff and allowing free trade and, second, alternative markets. It is reasonable to expect that China will build its own pigmeat businesses and will be able to satisfy its own market more in the years ahead. What particular efforts are being made to find...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pigmeat Sector (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: To return to the earlier question, this relates to the efforts to end the tariff and to reopen the opportunity for trade. I understand this investigation has been ongoing for some time, with the expectation of an outcome later this year, or possibly by the end of the year. Is there any evidence emerging of dumping going on? Where do things stand at the moment on this? I know that it was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for the up-to-date position on the development of a tourism plan for the Muscraí district to include the Gearagh, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50804/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I must tell the Minister about this magnificent place, the Gearagh, which is right beside Macroom. It formed after the last Ice Age. It is the remains of a post-glacial alluvial rainforest. It is a magnificent place. Migrating birds have nested there for many generation as they travel north to south and back again. People, whether local or international, may not know it well. We want to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge the huge work that has been done in developing the west Cork and Kenmare development plan. As part of that, there is work also with Údarás na Gaeltachta on developing the Muscraí plan. Muscraí is very much focused on the Gaeltacht area. There is an amazing offering between food, culture, language, the landscape and so much more. The Gearagh is right on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: The proposal to meet with Fáilte Ireland is both positive and one we should take up. There are a number of stakeholders involved. Having ESB, which is the landowner, participating in such a meeting would be very important, particularly as it owns the Gearagh area, which is part of the Lee reservoir. While they have done some work on bird hides, walkways, etc., many feel that there is...