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

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a pity the witnesses from the National Biogas Concern Group will not have an opportunity, as well as us, to put questions to the next group of witnesses.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Sorry, I cannot hear you at all.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: With no disrespect to the two witnesses, it is very clear to me that the Department is pushing this through without due diligence and planning. From what I have heard, I do not think people need to go for planning permission to get one of these things built. Is that right or wrong?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Is it in the Kerry county development plan? Is there a strict set of guidelines that says you have to be 1 km away from an existing house?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: There are no regulation.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: This is very concerning. People's homes are their castles. There are so many people without houses. I applaud the people who have built their own houses and want to ensure the value is maintained and that they do not have to suffer these things beside them. It is absolutely reprehensible that the planning regulator will stick its nose into Kerry County Council and the county development...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: That is my concern. There does not seem to be any place for this to be thrashed out or for planners to do proper due diligence. For instance, when a fella puts in planning permission for a house-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----his application is sent to environmental services, water services, roads and all the different bodies to measure it and come back with an answer. The planner then makes the final decision. This is not happening in this case, is it?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: That did not answer my question at all.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Kinsella mentions jobs and all the other benefits but there is no proper planning process for this. There is no specification as to where these plants can be put or what distance they have to be from a house. Is there that stipulation in any part of the regulations?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I know our senior planners look at what they have to adhere to but it is not appearing here.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no compulsion on them to do that at all. They can say they met a couple of fellas down the road who agreed with it but there is no account of the fellas who were against it.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. I am sorry I was not here for the beginning of the meeting but there were other things I had to attend to. It is good to have the witnesses here today. I thank the Chairman for allowing me to talk because I am not a member of the committee. It has been brought to my attention by a respiratory consultant who is concerned. In the quest to reduce emissions and for construction to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: In some windows there is no opening or latch at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for their response. I raised this because a specialist consultant raised the issue that she is receiving a lot more patients with respiratory problems and she was concerned that it was because of air circulation pumps.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. As the Acting Chair is well aware, I represent a rural county, although of course we have great towns. We have a vast rural territory. The issue of loneliness, including for farmers, was mentioned earlier. I am very grateful for Ms Earley's overview. I welcome especially Dr. Breandán Ó Caoimh. I know him very well. He is originally...