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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: How many infringements have been recorded in that facility since it started operations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: An incident occurred in the early stages of its operations when workers were exposed to ammonia, if I recall rightly, within the site which they were painting from an explosion from one of the values. I cannot remember the full technical details. We asked questions about that almost two years ago and sought to bring in the company and the EPA but we have not heard anything further. What...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: What were the consequences for the company of that breach of safety, the fact that the valves were in the wrong place or that the weldings were not right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: No fine was imposed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: How many other incidents of breaches of compliance or conditions of operation were there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: On the first question I asked about where inappropriate material was used in the incineration, which had come from a non-three bin system, what is the next stage where there is an inspector's report raising a concern? What happens next?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: There is not likely to be fine or a consequence for the company other than warning it not to do it again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Regarding a second incident, which I believe has been recently reported, where material was returned from the plant as being inappropriate, there was no recording as to where that material went. Is that a fair summary of what happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I understand the company has applied another 200,000 tonnes of waste material per year and that it is looking for an extension of its licence to allow for it. What is the role of the EPA in considering such an application and who decides on it? Is it the council, the EPA or another body?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I apologise for the series of detailed questions, but it is a major issue in my constituency. The Climate Action Fund has available €20 million, I believe for the use of heat from the wastewater at the facility in the district heating system. Does the EPA have any involvement with it or does it have any understanding of what could be developed? What is its role in considering the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Yes. It is about using heat from wastewater at the plant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: It is related to the plant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I presume the Department was involved in considering applications under the Climate Action Fund. Would it be possible to send members details of what exactly is proposed? To be honest, I am totally in favour of using heat from wastewater. It is my understanding of a report from a number of years ago by Dr. David Connolly at a Danish university that half of Dublin could be heated with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Mr. Collins would have a copy of the details of what is planned or know how much of the heated wastewater could be used and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: Perhaps Mr. Collins might forward it to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I have a policy question. There is to be additional capacity of 90,000 tonnes at this facility, while there is capacity to deal with 235,000 tonnes at the Indaver facility in County Meath. Are all three cement plants engaged in the waste incineration process? That must mean that there is capacity for a further 400,000 or 500,000 tonnes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: The proposed plant in Cork would have capacity to deal with another 250,000 tonnes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: In the presentation there is reference to the European Circular Economy document which I have in detail and which notes waste incineration as a possible technology. I read about giving up on incineration as a circular economy would lead us to recovering materials such that we would not have to burn our waste. Why, therefore, are we considering further expansion of capacity, with an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: I do not have the paper in front of me, but I could give other quotes. They might imply that one could do as Mr. Collins says, but the clear indication is that it is not European policy. Does the EPA agree with my assessment of what the circular economy would bring? Surely in the long term there should be a reduction, rather than rapid expansion, of the need for incineration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Eamon Ryan: How does the massive expansion of incineration fit in with the strategy the Minister, Deputy Bruton, set out yesterday when he indicated that we effectively wanted to move towards a zero emissions economy by 2050? How will we do it when we are burning all of this waste?