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2025-05-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To help to remove and prevent algae, other nutrients, and untreated pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics from surface waters. ::To recover and recycle phosphorus and nitrogen without any toxic metals to Irish farmland and Irish gardens in order to safely grow food crops. ::To make Ireland a front runner for ensuring affordable fertilisers and future food security over the coming decades, as we come to the end the fossil fuel era.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting changes to EPA & Uisce Éireann Policy to allow for urine separation |
| — | collection and treatment by domestic houses |
| — | local communities and Irish Water to treat separated urine to recycle phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2025-04-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To prevent Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Pharmaceuticals from entering our surface waters ::To help to avoid global a phosphorus fertiliser supply crisis when Coal, Gas and Oil are no longer being burnt. ::To help to reduce the growing problems of antibiotic resistance in the health care system. To respond to calls from the World Health Organization to take steps to avoid the millions of deaths from bacterial infections that can no longer be cured.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting amendment to remit of Irish Water to accept separated urine to recycle Phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2025-04-10
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To enact a 'Private Members Bill' to mandate the EPA to mandate the separation and the collection of human urine. To require or permit Uisce Éireann, single houses, local communities, farms or creameries to treat the urine in a dedicated separate treatment system. ::To remove the phosphorus from the urine to produce a form of phosphorus fertiliser (struvite), that will contain almost undetectable levels of toxic metals, antibiotics and pharmaceuticals ::To help to prevent future global shortages of phosphorus fertilisers. To avoid unaffordable phosphorus fertilisers as we close fossil fuel power stations resulting in a future food security crisis. ::To economically reduce pharmaceutical and antibiotic pollution in our rivers and streams, that contribute to antimicrobial resistance. ::To significantly reduce the algal blooms in surface waters in summer as a result of phosphorus pollution that is entering our rivers and lakes.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting the EPA to permit and allow Uisce Éireann to accept separated urine to recycle phosphorus and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2025-01-27
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Seanad
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater, surface water and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus fertiliser over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive or in short supply. ::To most easily and at a lower cost, remove pharmaceuticals from human and cattle urine that is currently entering rivers and streams
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting amendment to remit of Uisce Éireann to accept separated urine as the best way to recycle metal free Phosphorus and Nitrogen and to most economically remove pharmaceuticals from waste water discharges into surface waters |
2024-09-11
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater, surface water and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus fertiliser over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive or in short supply. ::To most easily and at a lower cost, remove pharmaceuticals from human and cattle urine that is currently entering rivers and streams
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting amendment to remit of Uisce Éireann to accept separated urine as the best way to recycle metal free Phosphorus and Nitrogen and to most economically remove pharmaceuticals from waste water discharges into surface waters |
2024-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive. ::To also more easily remove pharmaceuticals in the urine from rivers and streams more easily than from municipal wastewater.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting amendment to remit of Irish Water to accept separated urine to recycle Phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2023-09-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Steven Matthews (TD), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Martin (Minister), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Rural and Community Development; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Garvey (Senator), Seanad; Pauline O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To demonstrate and develop the recycling of phosphorus as Struvite from urine in Ireland. Confirm by testing that the struvite produced from separated urine is the most toxin-free and metal-free form of recycled phosphorus fertiliser for food crops. Seek certification with the European Union to obtain the CE mark for this type of struvite because of the practically undetectable levels of toxic metals or residual pharmaceuticals in the fertiliser. ::To begin to take steps to create an indigenous pure phosphorus recycling industry and market in Ireland, based on separated urine. ::To efficiently prevent phosphorus discharges from septic tanks ::To create the supply and market in Ireland for magnesium rich brine from seawater, and for the use of magnesium oxide or Epsom salt, as an ingredient for the production of recycled phosphorus as struvite from separated urine.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Proposal for urine separating toilets in 200 new houses. Proposal that Uisce Éireann collects the urine. Proposal that phosphorus as struvite from separated urine be recovered and recycled to food crops |
2023-04-28
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Hannah Hamilton (Adviser to Minister), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Department of Agriculture and the Marine
Intent: To remove phosphorus, nitrogen and pharmaceuticals from domestic wastewater
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting amendment to remit of Irish Water to accept separated urine to recycle Phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2023-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Oissian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Intent: To significantly reduce the wasting of phosphorus from septic tanks that frequently ends up polluting local wells and streams. To reduce excessive phosphorus in cattle slurry from entering ground water and surface water bodies. To reduce Ireland's dependence on imported synthetic phosphorus fertilisers and replace this with lower cost recycled phosphorus fertilisers for gardens & farms. To promote recycled phosphorus in order to avoid a future global fertiliser and food supply crisis.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | To encourage & promote human as well as cattle urine to be separated to treat and recycle the Phosphorus as a sustainable fertiliser. |
2022-09-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Ossian Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To significantly reduce the wasting of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from septic tanks that frequently ends up polluting local wells and streams. To minimise the excreted pharmaceuticals that are ending up in nearby wells and surface water bodies. To reduce the nutrient loading on overloaded municipal sewage treatment systems. To reduce Ireland's dependence on imported synthetic nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers and replace this with lower cost recycled fertilisers for gardens & farmers.::To recycle nutrients from human toilet waste and to begin to lower the cost for nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers, to promote a program of recycling nutrients from waste water at source, so that we begin to take small steps to avoid unaffordable fertiliser and food prices. To prepare for making ammonium sulphate from the ammonia that emits from stale urine using sulphuric acid. To begin to move away from our dependency on natural gas from Russia, to make synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting changes to Irish Building Regulations to allow for composting toilets. To allow/ permit urine separating toilets and the treatment of urine to grow flowers or make Struvite and also to recover nitrogen as Ammonium Sulphate. To permit and approve the use of these recycled nutrients to be used in gardens & farms as a safe compost or fertiliser that does not contain toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. To ask for rainwater harvesting systems to be mandatory for all new buildings in Dublin |