Results 81-100 of 8,268 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For using all-farm product.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: However, if you are using anything outside of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It has to be completely farm waste.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have met the guys in Nephin before. I know they are at the site down in Ballinrobe and they are looking at more sites around the country. Other than being involved, I think they are tied up with Corrib gas and all that. Is it viable, realistically, to say to a farmer Nephin will give the farmer €30 a bale, or whatever, for silage? I cannot see the maths working on that. I know...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sure we have plenty of time. We are here until 6 o'clock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry. The final thing is that Mr. Sweeney referred to - and I had an MEP looking at this as well - instances where if you are bringing in slurry, it changes the production because you might have dosed the animal or whatever and that causes more problems. Will the witnesses explain that in a way we can understand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses can go at them as they want.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What sort of a fund will that create?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Industry also needs cheap gas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know everyone wants the ideal world. While you have to use a percentage of that gas, you are not going to use 100% because it would be too costly. Does Mr. Phelan understand what I am saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Dr. Nolan with to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is just about Bia Energy being able to do it with agricultural stuff. Other than that, it is not allowed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is a place in Derry. I have visited a good few places, but there is none yet that is really producing much biodigested dry matter. I know Bia Energy puts out one part of it. There is none in the line of the big anaerobic digesters where there was talk of them being able to heat, go through a system, evaporate the water and put out dry matter. That is not happening because operators...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Could Mr. Sweeney comment on the EU regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I wonder if I am about to refer to surprised any of the witnesses, including Mr. Gildea, who has been ahead of the curve in the west. The day a few of us were out with officials from Gas Networks Ireland, there was a very disappointing revelation. In 2018, we were told that a connection point was going to be put in at Athenry by Gas Networks Ireland. The map we saw the other day, which the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know Cork has everything, but I am referring to the biggest area of production. The connections on the map came from Cork right up towards Kildare and Dublin. The area from Louth and Monaghan across to Donegal and down the west coast into Limerick and Kerry was all left out of the connection area. I thought that was disappointing. There is an operator in Ballinrobe and another in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is direct injection that I am on about. There was to be a place that a lorry could come to in Athenry. This was explained to us here in 2017 or 2018. The idea was that the gas could be transferred from the lorry to the grid. A place was to be earmarked, but it has disappeared off the map altogether. All I could see on the day we were with Gas Networks Ireland officials was a series of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is one thing that needs to be noted, and in Mr. Gildea's case, he did an EIA, screening out and everything, is that everything is contained within the site, be it Mr. Gildea's or any place there are anaerobic digesters. Water cannot run around the place because it is all contained. It is in tanks, and you have Bauer tanks to basically slap the pipes in against each other. Mr. Gildea...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Nephin Energy going to take in slurry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Chicken litter and whatever. Is slurry being taken in from farmers?