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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (4 Nov 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 1986. To ask the Minister for Health if she will carry out a review of the Community Pharmacy Agreement to ensure that the most vulnerable i.e. people who have reading difficulties, people with mobility difficulties and elderly disadvantaged people will not be impacted by the ceasing of phased dispensing in January 2026 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59540/25]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can Ms Kelleher give us that figure again please?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, 10,000 tonnes of slurry-----

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Can I ask one question please? How come Brendan Gildea, who has 230 cows, is able to produce 4,000 tonnes with one farm?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I know what he has because I dealt with his planning. I know how many cows he has. Brendan Gildea has 230 cows and he generates 4,000 tonnes. The witnesses are saying that 10,000 tonnes equates to 15 farms of 200 cows. There is something not adding up.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am going by his figures.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is 230.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is organic.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: First of all, I agree that whether it is wind or anything else, there should be guidelines. I was googling what a cow produces and I would say the witnesses would want to go back and check their figures. I think it is fairly accurate to say 4,000 tonnes out of around 250 compared to the 10,000. The witness talked about dangers due to flammability. Has there been an accident anywhere?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Where was the accident?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Was that in Ireland?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I agree we need proper roads where there are lorries. What size plant would have 70 lorries arriving per day?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many plants in Ireland are of that size?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the biggest that we have?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is here in Dublin. The tonnage means 3,000 loads per year.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am talking about articulated lorry loads. Thirty tonnes can be brought in such a load.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Even if Sundays were left out, it would be about ten loads per day. Would that be fair to say?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not every day because, obviously, when you fill the plant, it takes a week or ten days before the used material can be taken out. Is that correct?

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: If you fill it, you generally have to leave the material there for a week or two.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: In fairness to some of them, they are trying to get a connection to the grid in the areas where they are located. I agree they need to be regulated. I have looked at many anaerobic digestion, AD, plants in the North and here. The fact is that if an AD plant is run correctly, there is no smell. If it is not, there is a smell. That is the bottom line. I do not agree that they cannot be...