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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It was a question from Senator Flynn. How limited is the TAIP in creating opportunities for Travellers with limited educational attainment?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My second question is kind of a hybrid of Senator Flynn's question and my own, if that is okay. How varied are the roles and apprenticeship fields available through the TAIP? Does the ITM feel this ratio is sufficient in creating opportunities for Travellers that may not otherwise be available to them?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Senator Flynn is really asking how varied the roles are in apprenticeships through the apprenticeship programme. Does the ITM feel the ratio is sufficient in creating opportunities for Travellers?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It could. The National Women's Council was here yesterday. There is a whole public discourse and Government commitment around moving towards a public model of childcare and early childhood education. That might present opportunities. I will raise another area of interest. I am looking at the nature restoration element of it and farming and whether there are opportunities for young...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly. I raise the outputs of our work here in this committee. It is important that we look at a stand-alone report on this particular issue with recommendations to the Government. It is something we should give active consideration to.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It would be useful for us to try to take that evaluation report. Perhaps this committee could produce a stand-alone report with recommendations to the Government. It might be very useful. There is one more thing I wanted to mention. These are areas of interest I have had for many years regarding traditional skills as well, be it in thatching or stonemasonry. I did mention the NPWS in...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Apprenticeship Incentivisation Programme: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Absolutely. The OPW and-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Infrastructure (25 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: We welcome the additional briefing material that has been supplied by the Department regarding this. Is é sin deireadh an chláir. The House stands suspended until 11 o'clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I have several questions, and one follows the question on data centres. I welcome Mr. Gannon's proposal that we would have an opportunity for further engagement given the delay in putting together the piece of work. It would be most welcome if we could have further engagement because members are quite interested in the issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My next question is on water. The issue of Uisce Éireann's water charges plan has been raised. Uisce Éireann had been seeking an 18% increase. Specific to the CRU, does it do any projected modelling on potential costs of projects, for instance, the proposed Shannon water pipeline to the greater Dublin area? This will be a significant capital outlay by Uisce Éireann....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have just one question. The issue of the potential impacts of Storm Éowyn, other storm events and extreme weather events generally was mentioned. What is the knock-on potential electricity cost of such an event? It has exposed a challenge around a lack of coherence in our rural housing policies. In particular, Mr. Mulligan mentioned the dispersed settlement patterns. We have a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I join others in wishing Martin Groves all the very best. I also wish Martin Hughes the very best in his new role. I want to raise an issue that was brought forward throughout the summer and particularly highlighted by the fish kill of up to 40,000 fish in the River Blackwater. It is an incident over which the EPA and everybody else seems to be wringing their hands, yet they are unable...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for the update. It was comprehensive and useful. I have a couple of comments and questions. I begin with the early learning and care and the Equal Start programme. I have certainly raised this issue here before. Do the witnesses have a view about on-site early years education versus integration? I have had experience with Traveller families in my...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly and have seen some of that working well on the ground in some early learning centres in my home town. Ms Baxter also addressed the issue of Traveller culture and identity. I welcome the work that has been done with the Heritage Council. In my previous role, I managed to put in funding for a Traveller inclusion and heritage officer within the council. The work being...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: That is most welcome. I have two final points. One is on the issue of housing. We had the Department of housing before us. I think it was at our last session before the recess. Looking at housing policy it is absolutely accepted that the needs of young Traveller families are changing. Many are opting to rent privately or find accommodation outside of group housing schemes. However, it...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise. There is one more point. It occurred to me that over the past number of weeks I have been involved in a project in Kilkenny. It is largely a biodiversity project about the ancient skill of scything. We have had some Traveller men and boys working on the project with us. It has been brilliant in terms of engagement. There might be an opportunity as we look towards the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I listened to the Minister of State with responsibility for overseas development, Deputy Neale Richmond, at the National Ploughing Championships yesterday. He said that we are at an existential crisis point when it comes to international development solidarity between the global north and global south. This is a climate justice issue above all else because of the disproportionate price the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Could Professor Daly explain the particular challenge with methane in the context of temperature neutrality versus the Paris test, which lies at the core of both submissions made to us today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My final questions for this round are for Professor McMullin. Earlier, he called for an open and independent peer review of the appropriate methodologies for the assessment of carbon budgets. Does he have a view on how that should take place? Is it unusual to have to call for that, given that we have been presented with a proposed budget? How does Professor McMullin anticipate that we...