Herr Ltd

Lobbying Organisation Herr Ltd

Date published 07 May, 2018

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Environment

Period 1 Jan, 2018 to 30 Apr, 2018

Specific Details The recycling of Phosphorus and Nitrogen from Human Urine to grow food without containing toxic metals or ingested pharmaceuticals

Intended results To eventually make it public policy to separate human urine in domestic houses and to process this to make safe compost in order to grow food To prevent a future food supply crisis by encouraging the recycling of phosphorus from Urine as the world supply of phosphates becomes depleated. To prevent ingested pharmaceuticals in human urine ending up in rivers, aquifers and our drinking water To prevent ingested pharmaceuticals, hormones and anti biotics from entering the food chain To reduce nutrients from domestic septic tanks from percolating into the ground and entering the ground water and eventually polluting rivers and streams

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Ollan Herr

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (2-5)

Details were included in the e mail explaining the need to recycle phosphorus and nitogen from domestic human urine. The finite resources remaining of mineral phosphorus. The projections for the depletion of this mineral from various countries. The implications for food prices and future food shortages. The position of Europe as a region with no phosphorus resources of its own. The effects on the price for buying imported fertilizer into Ireland. The growing problems of toxic metals such as Cadmnium in the commercial mineral fertilizers being used on farm land in Europe and Ireland. The conserns that this toxic metal will begin to accumulate in European and Iris soils and from there might emerge in the food chain. The importance of separated human urine as a clean sustainable source of nitrogen and phosphorus that can be recycled and that also contains the lowest concentration of toxic metals.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Colin Byrne Adviser to Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)