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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I just want to understand. I also want to understand when Cork County Council, the EPA and the Marine Institute were on-site and then I will talk about the evidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Was it a day, 24 hours or 48 hours? Was this one individual carrying out a visual inspection of all the different discharge points?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: My time is limited. Was there no collection of physical evidence by this particular individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Okay. I just want to move on. How quickly was Cork County Council on-site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: In the immediate three to four hours after the officer was on-site, to what extent were samples taken?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: This is really important. How many samples were taken in the hours immediately after Cork County Council was on-site? Where were those samples taken from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: How many samples were taken and what was the size of that sample?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I want to come to what is in the report. I presume the Marine Institute is responsible for tissue sampling and not for the environmental and chemical analysis. It talks about how samples were sent for independent analysis on 900 different parameters. I am trying to understand about the samples that were sent away. We know this is where the problem was. It was not a tissue issue. Where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I really want to come back-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: The critical time for taking water samples was immediately after going on-site. The critical place to take water samples was along the whole area of investigation, particularly at the discharge points. Were there any samples taken within 24 hours along the river and along the 26 km stretch, particularly at the discharge points? How many companies are licensed by the EPA along this 26 km...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: There are 31, okay. Were samples taken at the discharge points from those 31 plants within 24 hours of the notification of this kill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: One sample was taken?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Were these actually taken from the river?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I am asking about the river itself. How many water samples were taken within 24 hours from the 26 km stretch of the river?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: We are talking about a handful of samples. It was one sample?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Days and weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I will not dwell on this. I do not know if Dr. Downes agrees with me but it is about taking samples at the earliest possible opportunity along the entire stretch of the river. Ultimately, we do not have the evidence to find the murderer. For me, the big red flag here was how the evidence was collected and how quickly the evidence was collected. Somebody once said to me that the best...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I know what his focus is but he is a very well qualified individual. He understands analyses and he has a background in all of this. I am simply asking does he agree with me that it is absolutely crucial to take as many samples as possible at the earliest possible opportunity and at as many points, particularly the critical points and the 31 discharge points, at the earliest possible...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Regarding the first samples sent to an independent lab – it is Eurofins now but was ELS – what date did Mr. Long say? Were those tissue samples and not water samples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: How were those whole fish kept? I am just trying to think of the integrity of the sample. Where were they kept?