Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Malcolm NoonanMalcolm Noonan (Green Party)

For sure. Business for Biodiversity Ireland does a lot of good work in this space as well. Some of the work we did previously was with the NPWS and Intel around water management. There is a good opportunity there for the business sector and corporates to be involved in biodiversity restoration projects, which is something that is increasingly entering that space.

I have a final question. Alarm bells rang when I saw the word "nuclear" in the Chambers Ireland report. I think we will have a session here in the new year on nuclear power so it might be worth Chambers Ireland coming back in for that. One thing that rang alarm bells for me related to a report presented to our sister committee in the UK earlier this year on nuclear infrastructure in the UK being in a really serious state of decay. We have had brief discussions about nuclear energy here. I have written to the Taoiseach and Minister for the environment about us being the closest neighbours to the UK and the potential for something to go wrong with this infrastructure being quite significant. It needs to be taken quite seriously. Is Chambers Ireland of the view that at some place down the line, given the discussions we have already had about planning logjams, small-scale nuclear for Ireland might be somewhere in the mix into the future?

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