Following a cease and desist from operating outside the licensed site boundary
OCE-138399-D7F0V5
AIE request to EPA on unlicensed piggery inspections
Pig Farming
Pig Farm Bandon – EPA Enforcement/Licensing Records
Unlicensed piggery operating contrary to the requirements of section 82(2) of the EPA Act 1992
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Under AIE to request enforcement/licencing records for a pig farm (redacted) mentioned in the court diary, Brandon District Ct, for 4th Jan 2024
For the purposes of this AIE please consider records related to the court case and relevant site inspections within EDEN, LEMA, LEAP and any other EPA enforcement/licencing databases
Please consider the date range 2022 to 2024
On 4th January 2024 the Environmental Protection Agency prosecuted a County Cork Pig Farmer at Bandon District Court.
EPA licence / enforcement correspondence with Perma Pigs Ltd
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“…..all records / correspondence between EPA and PERMA PIGS Ltd for 2023 that do not appear in LEAP Online
Licensee PERMA PIGS LIMITED
Licence Register No. P0431-02
CRO Number 553066
Site Address Littlegrange, Drogheda, Louth”.
Licence Reg. No. P0431-02 transferred to JCM Farm Limited on 10 January 2024. All documentation in relation to the transfer can be found on the EPA website here https://epawebapp.epa.ie/terminalfour/ippc/ippc-view.jsp?regno=P0431-02
Slurry/Manure Register inspections on EPA licenced sites, what is the process for non compliance and where does the data appear in EDEN, LEMA or LEAP systems ? Example from Perma Pigs Ltd, Louth
EPA notes “The licensee shall upload as a licensee return through EDEN Record 3 form(s) for 2023, no later than 31 December 2023.”
Record 3 Form – Record of Movement of Organic Fertilisers, are reported to DAFM, not to EPA, so how is EPA getting access to fertiliser exports from licenced agri operations ?
And are these Record 3s published on LEAP Online ?
DAFM do not publish Record 3 data
https://leap.epa.ie/licence-profile/P0431
Note: AIE submitted 3/1/23 for records between EPA and Perma Pigs that do not appear in LEAP Online
EPA reporting requirements for pig/poultry waste
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Notes:
In 2011, the EPA changed the reporting requirements for pig/poultry waste
Licensees are required to submit to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine the completed records of movement of organic fertiliser from the installation (referred to as ‘Record 3’ by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine).
Record 3 data is not in the public domain
See associated notice published by DAFM in the Irish Independent Newspaper (Farming Supplement) on 22/11/2011 and the Irish Farmers Journal on the 26/11/2011 below in Appendix 1. I also attach the associated press release issued 25th January 2012, in Appendix 2.
But, sometimes the EPA may request pig/poultry waste data, and where they do request that data, it is in the public domain via LEAP Online
The Office of Enforcement confirmed that, for instance, where an issue relating to slurry might arise at a licensed site, the inspector enforcing the licence may request the licensee to submit information. The information received is uploaded to LEAP Online.
OEE has also confirmed that records relating to slurry held on-site by the licensee may be checked during site visits by enforcement inspectors.
Occasionally, if the records are not available on the day of the inspection, the enforcement inspector may ask the licensee to submit them to the EPA. In such circumstances, the EPA uploads those records to LEAP Online. Such requests by inspectors are not routine.
For clarity – if the situation arises where a licensee submits information to the EPA of the type they are obliged to submit to DAFM, either arising from a site visit by an inspector or an issue arising on-site, the EPA uploads this information to LEAP Online.
There may be a limited number of records relating to slurry movements received in 2023 available on a case by case basis on LEAP Online.
Pigs and Poultry data exchange
This was listed as an ACTION in the Nitrates Expert Group Meeting Minutes
9.30–11.00, 13th September 2023
DAFM/EPA will meet again to discuss Pigs and Poultry data exchange
No further information, but it’s understood that EPA may not currently share slurry related data on regulated sites with the DAFM, so DAFM cannot compare with their own data
Also note from previous AIEs the number of pig and poultry operations licenced by EPA does not match the number given by DAFM as above the stocking threshold for EPA licence. This discrepancy was never explained
Nitrates Expert Group Meeting Minutes, 11.30 – 13.00, 2nd August 2023
Pig slurry / manure registers
example from EPA LEAP Online
| P0702-02 — Messrs Pat Field and Pat O’Flaherty | Slurry Register A 2023 Pdf.pdf |
Protected: AIE to Wexford Co Co in relation to a pig farm at Killuger
Fenor Pigs: Waterford Application refusal by ABP
EPA licencing – stocking threshold, pigs / poultry
AIE
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Under the AIE Regs to request a list of intensive agricultural sites that have been notified to the EPA by Local Authorities, which are below the stocking threshold for EPA licencing, to include the date first notified to EPA, and the general reasons for notification
For the purposes of this AIE please consider the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 YTD
