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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: You have to get whatever additional antenna to have the work done on the field to make sure you have all the information and that information lasts. Mr. Dolan is saying the soil is sampled every four years and there is a saving on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I want to go on to the anaerobic digesters. There is a problem around the country where anaerobic digesting is done and the sludge is brought from cities or large towns, from water or wastewater. If a person in Bord Bia, that body does not let him or her spread it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I have rung and talked to a person in Bord Bia. I have asked for a meeting with the technical people in Bord Bia. My understanding is there is no scientific evidence to say there is anything wrong with the gear once it is brought to a temperature in an anaerobic digester. No more than if a person is told he or she cannot drink the water because there is E. coli in it, if the water is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am told there is no scientific evidence that it would be harmful but mentally we are saying we do not want the bullock, heifer or cow in that because it came from where sludge comes out, be it Irish Water or whatever. People in cities need to know of the knock-on effect of this. There will soon be no place to go with what comes out of the sewage treatment plants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is at a time when fertiliser prices are high. I would be a full believer, because you have to watch it, say with pharmaceutical stuff and all of that, for iron and all the different things that are in things coming out of places. We have to do an in-depth analysis. My understanding is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is happy with it and does not have a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Teagasc is happy with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Bord Bia is not. If a person is in Bord Bia, he or she is not going to take part in this. The Department of Environment, Climate and Communications has people on councils running around after tankers, wondering what they have on. A person must have his or her NMP, cannot be in Bord Bia, and there are a heap of stipulations stifling the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the solution? We will have a major problem for the people living in cities and large towns. In terms of an angle from which we could reduce fertiliser imports, as we know the price of it this year, Dolan Industries' first system would reduce costs by 15%. The second system would significantly reduce importation. My understanding is that this is allowable in other EU countries....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If one is in Bord Bia, one cannot use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Many farmers are in Bord Bia.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We are not talking about bringing it in the lorry from the place out in the field.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I agree with what Mr. Macken has said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To summarise, one has a double win. It is a win for sensitive areas and water quality and savings on fertiliser of 15%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Does a person only have to do that, I presume-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: To be clear, Mr. Macken is talking about bringing it from the sludge pit into the proper anaerobic digester and bringing the heat treatment in the latter up to a certain degree-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank Mr. Kennedy for the submission and, as usual, for helping us. I was out at the Devenish place and learned a lot. There are a few things that need to be grasped in this. A lot of people think that they are carbon neutral within the city and that the only people who can solve a lot of this are the farmers. This is the first thing that people need to realise, that from the minute...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I will be very clear with the Taoiseach. This is not a delay. This High Court decision has taken away the powers the State gave to every council in the country in 1949. Is that clear enough for the Taoiseach? What is he going to do about that? I will be clear on the second assertion I made. The Taoiseach is closer to the Attorney General than I am. I do not get to talk to him or to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Government cannot do so at the moment.