First meeting of the National Bioeconomy Forum
Minister of State in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Martin Heydon T.D., along with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, today provided the opening addresses to the 1st meeting of the National Bioeconomy Forum.
Speaking today, Minister Heydon said:
‘Producing sustainable and renewable biological resources from our farms, forests and seas, and focusing on the prioritised use of this biomass through biorefining to create innovative, high value biobased products including food, feed, alternative biobased chemicals and materials is a key business opportunity I want to see developed to the benefit of the agri-food sector. These products will replace and reduce our dependence on fossil based resources and most importantly generate sustainable new economic opportunities for farmers, foresters and fishers, as well as for young and skilled rural entrepreneu
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Covid-19 sewage testing plan is ‘pile of nonsense’, says Longford HSE chairperson
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The Longford chairperson of a HSE committee has branded a move by health chiefs to start testing people’s sewage from early next month in a bid to track how Covid-19 as a “pile of nonsense” and a “complete waste of taxpayers money.”
Cllr Paraic Brady, who is the chairperson of the HSE’s Dublin Mid Leinster Forum, slammed the announcement by health bosses to roll out the National Covid-19 Wastewater Surveillance Programme.
The programme, which is set to start in early May, will measure the level of SARS-CoV-2 in 68 wastewater catchment areas across the country and will operate as an early warning system for future possible waves of Covid.
National environmental early warning Covid-19 surveillance system underway
Surveillance to analyse of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in wastewater
A national Covid-19 wastewater surveillance programme is to measure the level of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater within 68 wastewater catchment areas across the country beginning early this month.
The programme is to operate as an early warning system for future possible waves of Covid-19 infection. This is part of the work being undertaken to monitor the prevalence of Covid-19 in communities across Ireland.
The surveillance project has been developed by a specialist team, with input from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Health Service Executive (HSE), Health Intelligence Unit, the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL), UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, and Irish Water, will begin in early May.