Results 921-940 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: That is an increase of 0.7. In that period of time, we had the so-called expansion of the dairy industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: It went up by 0.7 mg/l.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: That is the national picture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The national figure is an increase that is within the European limit. Is that true over the 12-year period?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: That is what the Commission said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: No, we are not asking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: This is what the Commission told us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is the graph wrong or am I wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is the issue mainly with phosphorous?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: In the main, however, phosphorous is the big issue at wastewater treatment plants. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: As the level of one of the gases reduces, the other goes along.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: I thank the witnesses for attending the meeting. I have engaged previously with three of them. Will Mr. Herlihy explain his qualifications and experience over the past 27 years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: A statement was made by the EPA representatives this morning to the effect that we can see a significant change in groundwater in a period of 12 months. With his experience over the past 27 years, what does Mr. Herlihy think of that statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Is Mr. Herlihy aware of any research anywhere in the world showing that in a 12-month period, in the context of whatever measures are brought forward, a significant change can be seen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The farming community has introduced changes in the past three or four years, involving more than 30 different measures. The EPA representatives acknowledged today that when they model catchments, derogation farmers are not part of the modelling. In other words, the EPA does not acknowledge the derogation farmers are there. We have a scenario now whereby when we have a catchment, we take...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The red map Dr. O'Connell mentioned forms a significant part of this report. This 29-page report has created more confusion in the farming community than anything else. Whoever deems it appropriate, perhaps the president of the IFA, might elaborate regarding that red map and also that, because the EPA produced the red map, it found that it had to produce a map on page 21 afterwards to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: Famously, Leitrim is included.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: There is one derogation farm with 3,000 cows and, as can be seen, it is marked as red.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: That was under Article 12.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Tim Lombard: The problem is that the Department agreed Article 12 two years ago. It effectively signed us up for something that is very hard for us to comply with. The working group Dr. O'Connell and Mr. Buckley sit on at the moment, and our guests might correct me if I am wrong in this, is asking for proposals on how we will work towards reaching Article 12.