Results 241-260 of 5,312 for speaker:Aindrias Moynihan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: That is a policy question. It would not be for civil servants to be answering policy questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: It would not be for them to answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: One voice, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Very briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: I will follow up briefly on one of the points Deputy Healy-Rae raised about the standards of production elsewhere compared to the standards Irish tillage farmers have to meet to produce their grain. Is any measure made of this to see how much of a disadvantage Irish tillage farmers are at per tonne as opposed to the same tonne of product coming in from elsewhere? Is there any kind of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: We are finishing at 6 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Quickly, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: Finally, we will have a quick question from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: A number of points were made there. Would anybody like to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)
Aindrias Moynihan: I really appreciate the input. There was a lot of information there. On behalf of the committee, I thank you all for your contributions. The next meeting of the joint committee will be on Wednesday, 8 October, when social farming will be on the agenda. As there are no further matters for discussion at today's meeting, it stands adjourned.
- 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?