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Seanad: Companies (Emission Reporting) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Eugene Murphy: ...is allocated to each installation annually. Companies are required to have an approved plan for monitoring and reporting annual emissions, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. This plan is also part of the EPA permit to operate required for industrial installations. The emissions report data for a given year must be verified by an accredited verifier by 31 March of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Eugene Murphy: ...work she is doing? We have a significant number of group water schemes throughout the country. They do wonderful work on water quality programmes. In fact, they are now being funded by the Departments of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Do the witnesses engage with those schemes? Their work is sometimes not recognised in the media. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Eugene Murphy: ...unfair coverage or do not get credit for what they are doing. This is really something that should be developed for the politicians perhaps to suggest more engagement. I accept that it is not the EPA's job to do that. Herbicide contamination is going to become a big issue, however. I acknowledge that. Is the EPA aware of those schemes?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (11 Jul 2019)

Eugene Murphy: ...directly as well? I challenge the Minister in regard to the situation of seasonal workers such as students, part-time farmers and part-time employees in other jobs. Will he ask the ESB, the EPA and Bord na Móna to try and place some of those seasonal workers in other jobs? Let us try to do that for them at least. It can be done if the will is there to do it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Eugene Murphy: ...and three minutes away from the Bord na Móna works. Some 150 people are effected by this. I ask the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Bruton, to arrange a meeting immediately with the ESB and the EPA and Bord na Móna to try and get the power station re-opened as quickly as possible. Second, this is a huge blow for the seasonal workers who have been hit, many of whom...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Eugene Murphy: Without question, the EPA rules on water pollution have a very negative impact on planning permissions, not only in County Leitrim, but in my own county of Roscommon and other counties in that region. They are also having a negative effect on a number of midland counties. I want to compliment Deputy Martin Kenny on bringing this Bill forward because it is quite positive legislation. We can...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (8 Mar 2018)

Eugene Murphy: ...of the court. Now, we have this transfer station going across the road from where the dump was, which is another very serious legal issue. I want to know what monitoring is currently being done by the EPA on the gas emissions from the landfill which, as I said, is directly adjacent to the site that is now proposed for another dump. By the way, this is located very close to the River...