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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Some of them were smaller. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In the line of the farmer-led one, Mr. Seán Finan was before the committee. Mr. Brendan Gildea is near my neck of the woods. He has built one and it is impressive. The fund for that looks to be very low. Is there €3 million or €4 million available? How is it that the Department does not encourage more of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am on about the budget.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How much is the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is no grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Department is generally looking at large-scale projects. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there an obligation coming in, under the climate action plan, that 10% of all gas will have to be renewable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I right that the Department has some dream of importing some of that? Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Would the witnesses agree that it needs some bit of a poke or help if at the moment, it is 4 cent per KWh, as against roughly 16 cent per KWh? That is a huge difference. Would they think there is a need for more Government funding to entice it? People vote with their feet. I know there is an obligation coming in. When is it coming in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: When is that roughly? Will it be 2030?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The obligation will be on every company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Brendan Gildea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: On the 18 plants that are in place at the moment, we are eight weeks from Christmas and surely to God, if the officials have a purse that is to be paid out they have checked it out. I have a fair clue about what is going on around the country in AD and I cannot see too many of those 18 plants being ready for Christmas. What indication have the officials?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What has the Department told Ms Hamill and Mr. Kinsella up to now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will it be a quarter of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How come under the policy if I put up my own anaerobic digester like Brendan Gildea did there is no hassle with the EPA or any of that, but if a group of us farmers get together with the same thing called slurry, because we do it in a community we have to use the EPA even though it is the slurry out of four or five farms together? That is even though it is going through anaerobic digestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but is anyone going to look at that or change it? That is what I am asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Previous speakers spoke about odour. In my opinion, if an anaerobic digester runs right there is not an odour, but how is odour measured? I can never fathom that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the officials come back to the committee with the figures as soon as possible on the 18 plants the €40 million is there for?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: My understanding is that it is not viable at the moment to pellet it. It needs too much energy, so what is the solution? If you talk about water quality, pelleting will be paramount to that. Where are you going then if that is not viable? There needs to be a good feed-in tariff, although I know what went on in the North was a mess. It would be interesting to see the figure that comes...