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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: Can the witnesses send that data back to us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: There has to be engagement with the communities. I spend most of my time now at public meetings - at least two or three nights a week - to do with the windmills. There are huge problems out there. We need to try to come together, and everyone should get an opportunity to do that. I was on the local authority for all the county development plans for the windmills but I do not know if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: Will the officials tell us where the 18 are located and whether they have planning permission? My second point is that when Brendan Gildea was in here, his job was completely different to any other job. That was a private job on his farm. He is taking in nothing from anyone else. He is burning his own slurry and throwing straw into it as well. If there is a digester in the town of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: What did the officials see when they went out there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: The waste from the brown bins that are all around the country now for food waste will go into it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: Then where are they going to get the stuff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: Then they are not suitable for a town. Why would you bring slurry in from the countryside into the middle of a town? Let us be fair about this. It is getting worse as we talk about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: We will not want the lorries coming in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: You cannot do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: We will all need less capacity for storing slurry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: What can go into it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: They will be out in the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: On the question of planning and designation, we will have to go back to the county development plan. If you are out in the middle of the country how do you get planning?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: The witnesses are very welcome here today. I have a few things I would like to say. I thank them for all the work they have done previous to this in the local authorities. I was there for years, and we benefited in no uncertain way from the schemes. I was involved in an awful lot of the schemes and the filling out of forms and everything. I agree 100% with what Mr. O'Brien has said about...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: I welcome the witnesses. I was involved in the LCDC for years when I was a county councillor. The money it brought in was fantastic. There were people representing all the different bodies on the different committees. The money was divided out and everyone had a say in it. That is important. That is what Dr. Ó Caoimh was alluding to as well. I raised planning earlier, and I...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: There is nobody elected who does not agree with what Dr. Ó Caoimh is saying. It is about trying to make it workable. As I said, in the next 20 or 30 years, we will have to think outside the box to see what is going to happen. We have to try to visualise where our communities are going to be. That is why I said earlier that we should strive as public representatives. I do not know...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: 175. To ask the Minister for Health when a contract of employment for the position of assistant director of nursing post in Kildare west Wicklow mental health services will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

William Aird: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if any recruitment embargos that were in place across the HSE have been lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57478/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (21 Oct 2025)

William Aird: 197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the means by which Ireland’s Action Plan on Market Diversification will reduce the country’s over-reliance on key trading partners such as the US, UK and EU; the concrete benchmarks and timelines for its implementation and success; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57145/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (21 Oct 2025)

William Aird: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the risk to Irish exports given ongoing tensions in transatlantic trade for example, US tariff threats and supply-chain disruptions; the contingency strategies his Department has developed to shield Irish businesses from sudden shocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57146/25]