Results 901-920 of 2,691 for speaker:Tim Lombard
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: If we were to reduce nitrogen to 170 mg/l tomorrow morning across the board would we see a dramatic improvement in our entire waterways system in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: If it is not then, what happens? It is probably the statement of the session, if not the day, that if we were to change our entire farming practice, in 12 months we would see an increase in water quality. I am trying to tease out that statement. I want to know the data behind it and if they have been looked at. I want to know where does the figure of 12 months come from because it is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Yes, 12 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Am I right in saying that there is 14 tonnes of nitrogen in the soil?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Am I right in saying that there are 14 tonnes of gathered nitrogen in the soil? We are just moving a small amount of nitrogen when it comes naturally, the daily routine of soil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Okay. My point is about the 12 months. Significant changes, like banding, have come on board. The spreading of slurry has changed dramatically. These are all significant changes. The farming community has moved so fast, so quickly. I believe that 12-month period is not appropriate but maybe I am wrong. Maybe there is significant evidence to prove it. If there is significant evidence,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Has a paper been done on that? Is there information that we can get as a committee to help us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the increase or decrease per year, what are the parameters required per year? What is the ideal that we are looking for? Is it 0.1% or 0.2%? What is the variant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: I am referring to water quality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: What is the trend? What is the decrease or increase in the trend? What is the percentage, going up and down? Is it 0.1% or 0.2%? Where does it fall?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Will Dr. Deakin explain for the record the first national graph from 2010 to 2022?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Page 11 of the report, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: We all know how we got to the figure of 9 mg, which is applicable because of the advice given to the farming community during the drought. Will Dr. Deakin explain what happened in 2016 on the major bar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: In 2016, we dropped to 7.2 mg. I am trying to tease it out
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: I have one more question. Why did we drop to 7.2 mg? It does not help those from the farming community listening to us today to say it was for complex reasons. What are those reasons? In other words, it was a dramatic drop to 7.2 mg. Is this going to depend on all these other issues? I just need to find out why it dropped to 7.2 mg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Would the EPA not have taken this information into consideration when it was making a submission to the Commission?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The EPA is still not taking the Timoleague catchment area into consideration when it is making its submission. Am I right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: It is a valid question to seek an answer to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The trend over the 12-year period was 0.7 of an increase. Am I right in saying that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: According to that graph, there was a 0.7% increase over a 12-year period.